How to Use bewilder in a Sentence

bewilder

verb
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  • The parent flies off as the chicks look around bewildered.
    — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, latimes.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The more than a decade and a half that’s passed since a men’s player won a grand slam event bewilders.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Some may bewilder you, like the bag of fluffy bonito flakes.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2021
  • The behavior of the driver of the car that killed her husband bewilders her.
    — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 15 July 2019
  • By his senior year, Siler was bewildered at the plays his third baseman could make.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2023
  • The Queen, with the audience, learns of Blunt's past as a Soviet spy—and she, like us, is bewildered.
    — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 17 Nov. 2019
  • Some of the children were as young as 5 or 6, looking bewildered, crying in fear.
    — Michael Kiefer, azcentral, 8 June 2018
  • Instead the giant puppy was bewildered in the Great Plains.
    — Andrew Theen, OregonLive.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Afanasieff sounds almost bewildered by the turn of events.
    — David Bauder, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Kerr said he was still bewildered as to why he was targeted.
    — CBS News, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Over a third of the island is untouched national park land, and the sheer amount of wildlife is bewildering (there are 267 bird species alone).
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
  • But there are a lot of frenemies and the alliances can be bewildering.
    — Fortune, 7 Aug. 2019
  • It’s been a run filled with bold stabs, wild spending and highs sandwiched by bewildering lows.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The appearance by the New Yorkers that evening at Linfield left a packed crowd bewildered and somewhat amused.
    — Shane Dixon Kavanaugh, OregonLive.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Dozens of children, some as young as toddlers, were bewildered when they were picked up from school and taken to makeshift shelters.
    — Adeel Hassan, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Okay, so that halftime show was bewildering, and not just because most of us were watching it and playing HQ at the same time.
    — Dave Holmes, Esquire, 5 Feb. 2018
  • For some reason, people are bewildered this hot 26-year-old guy could be a virgin.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 20 Nov. 2018
  • My goal isn’t to hurt them or to bewilder them with a puzzle but to challenge their maps of reality.
    — Anna Silman, The Cut, 13 June 2018
  • Tourists and residents watched the confrontations, bewildered, as police urged them to clear the streets.
    — Austin Ramzy, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2019
  • The result is a pitch-perfect resurrection of the tacky, bewildering sets from The Room.
    — Jared Cowan, Los Angeles Magazine, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Children huddled, damp and bewildered, until aid workers drove them away in the back of a pickup truck.
    — Cara Anna, The Seattle Times, 30 Mar. 2019
  • Richardson left the White House bewildered and uncertain of what would happen next.
    — Bob Woodward, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2018
  • Plus, those bewildering teases of Rey turning to the Dark Side and teaming up with Kylo.
    — James Hibberd, EW.com, 19 Nov. 2019
  • As of old, too, the young follow codes that bewilder their elders; their elders worry that the center cannot hold and that things are falling apart.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2022
  • For Democrats to now slap that poisonous brand on their own efforts would seem, to put it mildly, bewildering and unwise.
    — Gregory Krieg, CNN, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Prior to spending time with him, I was bewildered by dating.
    — S. Kirk Walsh, Longreads, 22 Jan. 2018
  • But if the street-style cross-body tool belt is questionable, a new pair of shorts from Spanish label Loewe are straight up bewildering.
    — Liz Raiss, GQ, 24 Apr. 2018
  • As one of her Indian hosts teaches Jen how to prepare the tea, Jen appears bewildered.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Nowadays, a lady who offered the back of her hand to a gentleman would only bewilder him.
    — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
  • We are bewildered why certain groups take offense at two people who love each other and want to spend the rest of their lives together.
    — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2018

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