BEWILDER in a Sentence

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131 example sentences for BEWILDER, such as:

1. It bewildered and depressed her.
2. The market sold a bewildering variety of cheeses.
3. At that early period it served but to bewilder her.
4. The child was bewildered by the noise and the crowds.
5. There is a bewildering variety of software available.

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 Meanings and Examples of BEWILDER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bewilder
 v.  lead into perplexity or confusion; perplex with mazes
Classic Sentence: (121 in 9 pages)
1  Writing, thinking, and directing all at once might well bewilder the poor lady, and Meg begged her to sit quietly in her room for a little while, and let them work.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FIFTEEN
2  At that early period it served but to bewilder her.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VI
3  It was the threat of the convent that finally won the assent of bewildered and heartstricken Pierre Robillard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  The idea of appearing publicly at a social gathering while in mourning was so unheard of she was bewildered.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  It bewildered and depressed her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  But, as they sat at the table, Scarlett silent and gloomy, Pitty bewildered and Melanie miserable, a telegram came.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
7  For a moment she stared at him bewildered, dropping her skirts in dismay.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
8  "But I thought Atlanta burned the night I left," cried Scarlett, bewildered.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
9  She had set her feet upon that road a spoiled, selfish and untried girl, full of youth, warm of emotion, easily bewildered by life.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
10  When she made feeble swimming motions to come back to consciousness, she was tired to her bones, weak, bewildered.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
11  Tomorrow she would wonder if she had made any impression on Frank's hurt and bewildered heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
12  His heart was sore and bewildered at Suellen's conduct and his vanity, the shy, touchy vanity of a middle-aged bachelor who knows himself to be unattractive to women, was deeply wounded.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
13  Frank gave her the three hundred dollars, bewildered by her sweet urgency, reluctant at first, because it meant the end of his hope of buying the sawmill immediately.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
14  It was as if Atlanta society, scattered and wrecked by war, depleted by death, bewildered by change, had found in her an unyielding nucleus about which it could re-form.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
15  She had not known what he meant then but now bewildered comprehension was coming to her and with it a sick, weary feeling.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
Example Sentence:
1  You bewilder us by the city traffic; none of us can back hotel independently.
2  "Your language is enigmatical, sir: but though I am bewildered, I am certainly not afraid."
3  The child was bewildered by the noise and the crowds.
4  A glance along his bookshelves reveals a bewildering array of interests.
5  The market sold a bewildering variety of cheeses.
6  There is a bewildering variety of software available.
7  As the deadline approached she experienced a bewildering array of emotions.
8  The store offers a bewildering array of garden tools.
9  Harry Levin used to explicate James Joyce's often bewildering novels with such clarity that even Finnegan's Wake seemed comprehensible to his students.
10  She looked jaded from the present conversation and her thoughts ran together bewilderingly.