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How to use bewildering in a sentence

16 example sentences · adjective

Bewildering means very baffling, confusing, or perplexing, often due to a very large choice being available. Example: “There was a bewildering collection of curiosities filling the room.”

Examples of bewildering by meaning

adjectiveVery baffling, confusing, or perplexing, often due to a very large choice being available.

  • There was a bewildering collection of curiosities filling the room.

More sentences with bewildering

  • The sprawlingness of the old house, while bewildering at first, added something to its charm.From the entry sprawlingness
  • As she pored over the company's bewildering tax documents, she furrowed her brows, wrinkled her nose, and began to frown her befuddlement.From the entry furrow
  • The band’s ascent is exciting and bewildering – until it isn’t.2021 October 17, Kitty Empire, “The Storyteller by Dave Grohl – a Foo Fighter pulls his punches”, in The Observer, →ISSN. From the entry cushy number
  • Health professionals and caregivers are faced with a bewildering array of infant formulas for non-breastfed infants.2007, Don M. Roberton, Practical Paediatrics. From the entry infant formula
  • Among other bewildering bizarr-ities I hear that whole families were seen costumed in cretonne!1920 October 22, “The Woman Of It! Over There!”, in Akron Evening Times, volume 28, number 346, Akron, Ohio, page two. From the entry bizarrity
  • Security is tight inside and outside the building, guarded by a bewildering collection of soldiers, policemen and gendarmes.2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian. From the entry handcuffs
  • By far the most bewildering parentism was heard when I tried something dangerous, such as walking along a wall.2009, Jimmy Greaves, Greavsie: The Autobiography, page 1608. From the entry parentism
  • But the real specialty here is the Poles’ beloved zapiekanki—a toasted baguette with cheese, ketchup, and a bewildering array of other toppings.2017 July, Rick Steves, “Eating in Kraków”, in Eastern Europe, 9th edition, Berkeley, Calif.: Avalon Travel, →ISBN, “Poland” section, page…. From the entry zapiekanki
  • And, anyway, you need to have some money left in the kitty to spend on some of the bewildering but often rather appealing options.2011, Jeremy Clarkson, Round the Bend, →ISBN. From the entry gearknob
  • It was a bewildering theophany, since it was impossible to make out anything clearly in the stormy obscurity of thunder, lightning, smoke and wind.2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage, published 2010, page 47. From the entry theophany
  • I got it date-stamped at the library desk and put it in my pippy bag and trotted out into the bewildering sunshine.2008, Frank Key, Gravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy Bags, page 149. From the entry pippy
  • There was quite a bewildering succession of drives, dances, picnics and boating parties, all expressively lumped together by Phil under the head of “jamborees”1915, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, Anne of the Island, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, →OCLC. From the entry expressively
  • Juell Demming is a somewhat bewildering argument in favor of an Anglo-Saxon union, or, as its author prefers to call it, of Anglo-Saxonry.1902, The Book Buyer, page 582. From the entry Anglo-Saxonry
  • Before, somewhere and time ungraspable, blurred and beset with bewildering details, she had lain alone in bed, listening to gladsome bird voices, mingled with a sense of distressed humanity.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry ungraspable
  • I will leave you, M. le Capitaine Tonti, to the tender mercies of my fair lieutenantess, who will show you the bewildering novelty of the marriage market this morning.1903, William R[obert] A[nthony] Wilson, “Devoted to Cupid and His Archery Practice”, in A Rose of Normandy, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown…. From the entry lieutenantess

Meaning of bewildering

  1. adjective Very baffling, confusing, or perplexing, often due to a very large choice being available.

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Questions about bewildering in a sentence

How do you use bewildering in a sentence?
Bewildering is used as an adjective. For example: “There was a bewildering collection of curiosities filling the room.”
What is a short sentence with bewildering?
“There was a bewildering collection of curiosities filling the room.”
What does bewildering mean?
Bewildering means very baffling, confusing, or perplexing, often due to a very large choice being available.

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