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How to use dazzle in a sentence

25 example sentences · verb, noun

Dazzle means to confuse or overpower the sight of (someone or something, such as a sensor) by means of excessive brightness. Example: “Dazzled by the headlights of the lorry, the deer stopped in the middle of the street.”

Examples of dazzle by meaning

verbTo confuse or overpower the sight of (someone or something, such as a sensor) by means of excessive brightness.

  • Dazzled by the headlights of the lorry, the deer stopped in the middle of the street.
  • Antidrone lasers can burn or dazzle a drone's sensors.

verbTo render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance.

  • The delegates were dazzled by the originality of his arguments.

nounA herd of zebra.

  • I reached the lodge as a dazzle of zebras trotted across the dirt road into thorny scrub by the game fence, and a lone kudu gazed up at me from the short grass near the swimming pool.2010, Douglas Rogers, The Last Resort: A Memoir of Mischief and Mayhem on a Family Farm in Africa, page 22
  • A group of zebras can be called a dazzle.2019 June 6, “A gaggle, a confusion and a conspiracy - bizarre animal collective group names”, in BBC

More sentences with dazzle

  • The lightning left her dazzled for several minutes.From the entry leave
  • Malcolm’s vision was now almost totally occupied by the shimmering dazzle of the scotoma.2019, Philip Pullman, The Secret Commonwealth, David Fickling Books (2020), page 373. From the entry scotoma
  • But Salmond the magician's dazzle has not pulled those crucial rabbits out of his hat.2014 September 8, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe”, in The Guardian. From the entry pull a rabbit out of a hat
  • The enormous sky over that flat line dazzled clear blue or filled with towers of cumulus clouds.2010 April 1, Gayla Marty, Memory of Trees: A Daughter’s Story of a Family Farm, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 177. From the entry thread
  • Here also the lights attacked me, as in the dazzle I saw my wife.2010, Charles Percy Snow, Homecomings, House of Stratus, →ISBN. From the entry pernicketily
  • "We think you're, you know." — "Brilliant," Anahita said and dazzled the bewildered Chamcha with a smile.1988, Salman Rushdie, chapter V, in The Satanic Verses, page 268. From the entry brilliant
  • He was too vivid a mark, as he dazzled slowly across the green water-meadows.1967, J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, page 41. From the entry water meadow
  • The young man's lucky star shone full on him, and dazzled him to a seeming indiscretion.1903, E. Nesbit, The Man with the Boots. From the entry lucky star
  • The smiley Mac face appeared and soon I was ready to dazzle the world with The Journals Book II.2005, R. T. Stone, The Journals Book II: Into the Gulf, page 28. From the entry spin up
  • Below: The zazziest nylon tricot pettipants — a dazzle of yellows, blues, pinks and greens, scalloped at the edges.1967, Harper's Bazaar, volume 100, page 240. From the entry zazzy
  • The trouble with this book, however, is that he gazes so fixedly at himself that his own eyes dazzle a little.1956 January, Francis Wyndham, “A Beginning and Other Stories”, in London Magazine, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2008, page 85. From the entry omphaloskeptic
  • However exaggerated an estimate this might be, the substratum of truth was solid and auriferous enough to dazzle the imagination.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados. From the entry substratum
  • A facety ghetto rude gyal grateful for your remarkable lack of judgeyness, an’ ready to be dazzled and inspired by your penetrating insight.2022, Tom Wright, “Scene Two: Classroom”, in I Ain’t Dumb (Modern Plays), London; New York, N.Y.; Dublin: Methuen Drama, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry problem child
  • For general relativity, there was a dramatic experimental test that was possible, one that had the potential to dazzle and help heal a war-weary world.2007, Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 255. From the entry war-weary
  • Her mind, busy as a computer, put together a menu for tomorrow’s supper that would dazzle the chef of a fancy hotel.1977, Bess Kaplan, chapter 6, in Malke, Malke, Winnipeg, Man.: Queenston House, →ISBN, page 53. From the entry blintse
  • One day he would build a snowcastle far away from where people could find it and live brightly there forever with all that dazzle and delight.1970, Christy Brown, chapter XIX, in Down All the Days, London: Secker & Warburg, →ISBN, page 121. From the entry snowcastle
  • At the end of it was such a shining needle that it dazzled her eyes so that she couldn’t see how she did the sewing up with it.1913, Greville MacDonald, “The Twins Write a Letter and Get New Shoes”, in Jack & Jill: A Fairy Story, London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent &…. From the entry shining
  • With a gentle smile that seemed unsuited to the mouth of so brave a soldier, he looked fatherlily around, his big eyes watching everything with a look of dazzled delight.1949, Philip Lindsay, “Long Live the King”, in The Loves of My Lord Admiral, London: Hutchinson Library Services, published 1974, →ISBN…. From the entry fatherlily
  • Or is it a mere adornment of life which we can do without—a mere knick-knack for Dame Civilization to hang about her wrinkled neck in order to dazzle her neighbours?1929, Frederick Philip Grove, “The Aim of Art”, in It Needs to Be Said. From the entry knick-knack
  • A whizzing spike, a chance shot that nearly grazed his nose, so dazzled his brainlet that the terrified creature doubled on his trail and came bounding back towards the train.1901, Charles King, Ray's Daughter: A Story of Manila, page 23. From the entry brainlet

Meaning of dazzle

  1. verb To confuse or overpower the sight of (someone or something, such as a sensor) by means of excessive brightness.
  2. verb To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance.
  3. verb To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.

Full definition of dazzle

Questions about dazzle in a sentence

How do you use dazzle in a sentence?
Dazzle is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Dazzled by the headlights of the lorry, the deer stopped in the middle of the street.”
What is a short sentence with dazzle?
“The lightning left her dazzled for several minutes.”
What does dazzle mean?
Dazzle means to confuse or overpower the sight of (someone or something, such as a sensor) by means of excessive brightness.

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