FLUSTER in a Sentence

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10 example sentences for FLUSTER, such as:

1. The General refused to be flustered.
2. The honking of horns flustered the boy.
3. Tom stood still, rather flustered by this onslaught.
4. She came to him somewhat excited and curious and flustered.
5. She was flustered, but he gave no sign of kissing her again.

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 Meanings and Examples of FLUSTER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fluster
 v.  confuse; hot and rosy, as with drinking; be in a heat or bustle; be agitated
Classic Sentence:
1  In fact, he held the whip hand of the situation so completely that she was as flustered as a girl at her first proposal and she could only blush and stammer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
2  That evening when Kennicott took her to call on the crochety Lyman Casses, their hosts seemed flustered at their arrival.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  She was flustered, but he gave no sign of kissing her again.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
4  She came to him somewhat excited and curious and flustered.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
5  Tom stood still, rather flustered by this onslaught.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
6  Nevertheless, I am in a dream, a flustered, happy, hurried dream.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 43. ANOTHER RETROSPECT
7  Eliza, who is exquisitely dressed, produces an impression of such remarkable distinction and beauty as she enters that they all rise, quite flustered.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
Example Sentence:
1  The teacher's sudden question should fluster him and he stammered his reply.
2  The honking of horns flustered the boy.
3  The General refused to be flustered.