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How to use mystify in a sentence

12 example sentences · verb

Mystify means to thoroughly confuse, befuddle, or bewilder. Example: “Solar eclipses continued to mystify ancient humans for thousands of years.”

Examples of mystify by meaning

verbTo thoroughly confuse, befuddle, or bewilder.

  • Solar eclipses continued to mystify ancient humans for thousands of years.

More sentences with mystify

  • This episode is another in a series of mystifying maneuvers made at the time.2003, Gary Kern, A Death in Washington: Walter G. Krivitsky and the Stalin Terror, page 104. From the entry memoiric
  • And my father was named for General Brock." "General Brock?" she asked, mystified.1949, Mazo de la Roche, Mary Wakefield, Dundurn Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry brock
  • 'Do I happen to have it for disposal?' repeated Mr Carlyle in a slightly mystified tone.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries. From the entry mystified
  • Ludlum has never come up with a more head-spinning, spine-jolting, intricately mystifying, Armageddonish, in short Ludlumesque, thriller than this.1986, “review of Robert Ludlum The Bourne Supremacy”, in Publishers Weekly. From the entry Ludlumesque
  • The great value of Bloom's work is its emphasis on a psychoanalytic perspective, however gnostified, mystified, cabbalized that perspective may be.1983, Eleanor Cook, Northrop Frye, Centre and labyrinth: essays in honour of Northrop Frye, page 345. From the entry cabbalize
  • “By golly, I don′t see how you done that without seein′ it happen,” exclaimed Slim, looking very dazed and mystified.1906, B. M. Bower, Chip of the Flying U, page 88. From the entry golly
  • On one occasion, or so legend has it, a ball fell from a dragon; when no tremor could be felt, scholars were mystified.2015, David Whitehouse, “The Messengers”, in Journey to the Centre of the Earth: The Remarkable Voyage of Scientific Discovery into the…. From the entry Longxi
  • To the observer, an unknown high-context culture can be completely mystifying, because symbols that are not known to the observer play such an important role.2010, Marieke de Mooij, Global Marketing and Advertising, →ISBN, page 71. From the entry high-context culture
  • Prison abolitionists are dismissed as utopians and idealists whose ideas are at best unrealistic and impracticable, and, at worst, mystifying and foolish.2003, Angela Y. Davis, chapter 1, in Are Prisons Obsolete?, archived from the original on 19 May 2023, pages 9-10. From the entry impracticable
  • If it happens often enough, sooner or later everyone's going to just give up and go home, and newcomers will be both mystified and discouraged.1999 September 16, Daniel Rutter, “Gibbering clones the future of Usenet?”, in Australian IT. From the entry sporgery
  • Byrne,” I said, “don’t you feel your dictionary might just metagrobolise (mystify) the average man and, worse, turn the harageous rodomontades (bold braggarts) among us into linguacious lexiphanics (talkative snobs)?”1979 November 22, Stephen Downes, “Secrets of a chronic logolept”, in The Age, 126th year, Melbourne, Vic., →OCLC, page 11, column 4. From the entry lexiphanic

Meaning of mystify

  1. verb To thoroughly confuse, befuddle, or bewilder.

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Questions about mystify in a sentence

How do you use mystify in a sentence?
Mystify is used as a verb. For example: “Solar eclipses continued to mystify ancient humans for thousands of years.”
What is a short sentence with mystify?
“Solar eclipses continued to mystify ancient humans for thousands of years.”
What does mystify mean?
Mystify means to thoroughly confuse, befuddle, or bewilder.

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