How to use muddle in a sentence

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• I’ve only had a few lessons, but I can muddle through the test.From the entry muddle through
• The film was technically superb but narratively muddled.From the entry narratively
• Whenever I meet the twins, I always muddle up their names. I call John Jim, and Jim John.From the entry muddle up
• So Sunak will try to muddle through, adopting Winston Churchill’s wartime mantra “KBO” (keep buggering on).2022 November 30, Andrew Grice, “Rishi Sunak is trying to govern the ungovernable”, in The Independent. From the entry KBO
• Exactly which term, "Sinae" or "Serica", equates to the modern China is a bit muddled.2008, Richard L. Smith, Premodern Trade in World History, p. 111. From the entry Sinae
• Devoid of its personality, and constipated in its decision making, the office muddled its way into mediocrity.2003, Peter Piven, Bradford Perkins, Architect's Essentials of Starting, Assessing and Transitioning a Design Firm. From the entry lobotomize
• Helder was also a visionary given to muddled, passionate harangues on immortality, astral projection and other esoterica.2002 May 20, “Luke Helder's Bad Trip”, in Time. From the entry esoterica
• The legislative processes, through which the parliamentary draftsman's work must pass, are confusing and muddled.1983, Geoffrey Lewis, “Statutory Interpretation”, in Lord Atkin, London: Butterworths, →ISBN, page 118; reprinted Oxford, Oxfordshire…. From the entry Hansard
• No matter how nonsensical and muddled the dream sequence is, write it down.1980 January 30, The Australian Women's Weekly, page 28, column 3. From the entry dream sequence
• This cemetery had a gravekeeper who kept the graves from getting muddled together with weeds and brambles.1942, Emily Carr, “Cemetery”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC. From the entry gravekeeper
• It dispelled the muddle into which Bilbo’s phrenetic ravings had crowded my thoughts.1941, Moses Koenigsberg, chapter VII, in King News, page 188. From the entry phrenetic
• I have stated that some of our protestant writers are muddled.1927, Money Writes!, page 119. From the entry muddlement
• Now the state of the industry can be described as blancmange, an incoherent muddle without even a cherry on top.2022 December 28, Christian Wolmar, “Annus Horribilus Must Mark a Turning Point for Our Railway”, in Rail, number 973, Peterborough…. From the entry cherry on top
• When had my own feelings become so muddled and complicated?2014, Sherry D. Ficklin, Queen of Someday: A Stolen Empire Novel, [Colony, T.X.]: Clean Teen Publishing, →ISBN, page 116. From the entry a
• But oh! the dirty muddle inside was awful.1998, Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England), The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorian. From the entry bwthyn
• Well one is a little anxious, one is always wary of the unknown, but I have faith somehow I'll muddle through.1984 December 17, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “Party Games (Yes Minister)”, in Yes Minister, spoken by Humphrey Appleby (Nigel Hawthorne). From the entry muddle through
• Indeed, they may muddle along a little better, armed with the view that the world is subject to their control.1982, Michael Schudson, The Power of News, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 170. From the entry muddle along
• Irony is flattered to death by a mental muddle of such a nature and on such a scale.1933, Choudhary Rahmat Ali et al., Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?. From the entry to death
• “Conflicting circumstances have me so seriously muddled I am whopperjawed if I can say, but it looks like it.1915, Clarence E. Hatfield, The Tug of the Millstone, Richard G. Badger, pages 238–239. From the entry whopperjawed
• Yet while new parents are bombarded with advice, empty nest parents are left to muddle through what is arguably the most challenging phase of parenting.”2025 August 10, Don Riddell, “Now that my kids are off to college, what’s this empty nester dad to do?”, in CNN. From the entry centre
• This is often not the case and overwriting can lead to vague and muddled features that confuse the reader and ultimately lose their interest.2013, Richard Rudin, Trevor Ibbotson, Introduction to Journalism. From the entry overwrite
• So the Knicks, who began the season with a depleted frontcourt, have muddled through the last six weeks with a depleted backcourt as well.2009 January 2, Howard Beck, “Knicks Will Continue to Be Walsh’s Work in Progress in 2009”, in New York Times. From the entry backcourt
• Executives are content to muddle along as long as profits are satisfactory — Attention to operating matters is a child of adversity.1940, unnamed executive quoted in United States. Temporary National Economic Committee, Investigation of concentration of economic power…. From the entry muddle along
• She meant to use the cumbrous machine to pick out this, that, and the other interesting person from the muddle of the world.1919, Virginia Woolf, chapter 6, in Night and Day. From the entry this, that, and the other
• He was only a vague old man who had made a muddle of life, but firmly and fightingly he was sure of that.1918, Constance Holme, Beautiful End. From the entry fightingly
• The report illustrated how easily matters of authorship can be muddled with AI using the example of a Gemini-generated cat smoking a pipe and reading a newspaper.2025 January 30, Tessa Solomon, “AI Art Lacking ‘Human Expression’ Cannot Be Copyrighted, US Officials Say”, in ARTnews. From the entry ai
• Coming at things from a different angle is an extremely effective way to achieve pattern interrupt because your message can stand out within the muddle of an inbox.2020 July 17, Patricia Duchene, “The Science Behind Pattern Interrupt”, in Forbes. From the entry pattern interrupt
• Vividness and clarity often go hand in hand, but may also be contrasted, like Ophelia's father, Polonius' exasperatingly muddled pedanticness; at once as intense as he is impervious.2017, David Myers, The Key Skill of All Skills: Learn How to Learn, →ISBN. From the entry pedanticness
• Such an examination, even if it manages not to cause offense, is bound itself to become confused and to reflect the cloudy muddle of the period.1961, Harold Nicolson, “Thirteen Colonies”, in The Age Of Reason (non-fiction), Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN…. From the entry otiose
• Hess, always a muddled man though not so doltish as Rosenberg, flew on his own to Britain under the delusion that he could arrange a peace settlement.1960, William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, LCCN…. From the entry delusion
• His official biographer, Edmund Morris, was so confounded by the assignment that he resorted to fiction, producing a muddled portrait of “Dutch” (Reagan’s longtime nickname) that was blasted by reviewers.2024 September 9, Jennifer Burns, “Book Review: 'Reagan' by Max Boot”, in New York Times, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2024. From the entry confounded

Meaning of muddle

1. verb To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.
2. verb To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.
3. verb To dabble in mud.

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Questions about muddle in a sentence

How do you use muddle in a sentence?

Muddle is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Young children tend to muddle their words.”

What is a short sentence with muddle?

“Young children tend to muddle their words.”

What does muddle mean?

Muddle means to mix together, to mix up; to confuse.