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How to use the word bewildered in a Sentence?

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We’re very disappointed. But we’re not surprised. We’ve been watching events in Minneapolis from miles away and we’re still bewildered about the charge being dropped and we’re still bewildered about the culture of the Minneapolis Police Department.

Maryan Heffernan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's an enormous building, so, I'm just, I'm totally bewildered by this. This is completely puzzling why we haven't found out anything.

Jim Wayne

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We were frustrated, a little bit bewildered, especially given what we've been through at the onset of the pandemic.

James Black

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The unified wall of support for Trump has splintered after last week's assault on the Capitol, republicans are disagreeing with Republicans on the most basic questions : Should Trump be impeached ? Should he be convicted ? Does he bear responsibility for what happened ? I suspect traditionally conservative audiences are bewildered and confused. Confusion is certainly apparent among many conservative media producers and commentators -- trying to find their footing as the story of the Capitol assault, and the President's reaction, keeps getting worse.

Mark Lukasiewicz

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.

Walter Lippmann

added by Normando
3 years ago

Its the name she used. I dont know where it came from. Im just like... Im as bewildered as Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are.

Vallow Daybell

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Imaad Zuberi knows nothing about a subpoena, other than what's been written. It's well known that after supporting President Obama and Hillary Clinton, that Imaad Zuberi gave generously and directly to Donald Trump inaugural. But many others gave considerably more. For what it's worth, Imaad Zuberi, as always, gave only Imaad Zuberi own money from Imaad Zuberi own resources. If, in fact, Imaad Zuberi is named in this subpoena -- never mind somehow named alone -- Imaad Zuberi is bewildered why.

Steve Rabinowitz

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I ’m bewildered why, after 32 years, this is coming out, now.

Michael Douglas

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

When I saw Jesse he looked a little bewildered, a little lost, i had that feeling when I moved into town myself. I thought he needed a friend, someone who could bring him through this thing.

Roland Christensen

Found on CNN
6 years ago

I got a phone call from my friend Eddie saying, ‘Hey, I found your wife. You need to get here right now, she was in the middle of the path and her bike was on one side… she was sort of sitting up and looking around really kind of bewildered.

Jeff Rapoch

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The Republican establishment acts bewildered. But they shouldn't. As much as they may try to distance themselves from Trump now, Republican leaders are responsible for his rise.

The Nevada Democrat

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We just walked out of the White House followed by some bewildered secret service agents and made our way to church, and from that moment to this we have always felt so welcome.

Bill Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

Bill Cosby

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Jean Cocteau

added by anonymous
10 years ago

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

Calvin Coolidge

added by anonymous
10 years ago

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

added by anonymous
10 years ago

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

D. H. Lawrence

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

added by anonymous
13 years ago

At points of clarity, I realize that my life on earth is meaningless, and that I am merely a pawn in a bigger game. A game I cannot possible understand or have control of. Thankfully, before depression sets in, I drift back into my cloudy, bewildered daily routine.

Joel Patrick Warneke

added by anonymous
13 years ago

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

added by anonymous
13 years ago

That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

added by anonymous
13 years ago

[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

added by anonymous
13 years ago

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient at others, so bewildered and so weak and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control We are, to be sure, a miracle every way but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.

Daniel Boone

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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