How to Use bewildering in a Sentence

bewildering

adjective
  • Personas range from silly and cutesy to annoying and bewildering.
    Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The theft was brazen and bewildering, the getaway swift, the trail of clues sparse and long-since dried up.
    AZCentral.com, 6 Oct. 2022
  • At the time of his death, at the age of 50, Jackson was like a phantom, a bewildering specter of his former self.
    Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
  • All of this was a little bewildering to watch from the sidelines.
    New York Times, 25 May 2021
  • For the tech industry, the Trump years were a bewildering mess.
    Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
  • In short, Saga can seem bewildering; but at its core are simpler themes of love, loss, and growth.
    Shaan Amin, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Still, the game was within reach for the Knights until that bewildering punt.
    Jason McDaniel, Houston Chronicle, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The Earth has racked up more than 12 straight months of record heat, a bewildering climate change milestone.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 8 July 2024
  • Only time will tell if the rest of the adaptation falls to the same bewildering anachronisms as the trailer shows.
    Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 June 2022
  • Harold Halibut clocks in at a bewildering 15 hours long, due to what feels like content cut from the last few chapters.
    PCMAG, 14 June 2024
  • Purdue coach Matt Painter calls his team's trouble against a full-court press bewildering and the work of Keystone Kops.
    Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Still, the first half ended on a bewildering note by the Patriots.
    BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Long gone are the days of UAB’s boring, bewildering, old-world offense.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The most bewildering and, at the same time, enlightening query from last week’s debacle is this: What in the heck are Black jobs?
    Michelle Deal-Zimmerman, Baltimore Sun, 1 July 2024
  • These are the best months Being on the other side of the application flood can be bewildering.
    Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 17 May 2023
  • The scope of the theft is extraordinary, but what’s even more bewildering is that three decades later, the crime has still not been solved.
    New York Times, 16 Feb. 2021
  • And sometimes, as in the case of Jimi Hendrix, 3D is just a bewildering parlor trick.
    Erik Sofge, Popular Mechanics, 11 Mar. 2010
  • Hieu initially found the city bewildering and felt homesick, but slowly the city grew on him.
    Aniruddha Ghosal, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024
  • And there’s a bewildering range of products with steep markdowns.
    Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The shift is hardly less bewildering to Sawyer and her fellow soldiers.
    Sam Sacks, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2018
  • The guidance about when to use protective gear and when to avoid doing so could be bewildering and stressful.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2020
  • By now Kapoor has begun mastering the bewildering maze of pedestrian roads and bridges that snake through the Venice canals.
    Jay Cheshes, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2023
  • There is now a 5 euro fee to get into one of Italy’s most popular sites, but the process has been bewildering for some, and there are fears the system could be abused.
    Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 9 July 2023
  • The second thing that happened was at once strange, bewildering and amusing.
    Monique Judge, The Root, 30 May 2018
  • The steamed and fried dumplings come in a bewildering array of shapes and fillings, from crispy swans filled with durian custard to bundles of purple yam and chive.
    Jay Cheshes, WSJ, 2 May 2018
  • The government’s gift to your child is a bewildering array of legal rights.
    Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2023
  • His decision to come back from a brief retirement looks more bewildering by the week.
    Baltimore Sun, 25 Oct. 2022
  • But there is such a bewildering amount of high-quality content in the game that those complaints are mere quibbles.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2018
  • Sports and sights aside, the city’s often bewildering infrastructure has put on a show, too.
    Alexander Smith, NBC News, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The second, third, and fourth rooms uncover the bewildering events that the photo essay set in motion.
    Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2019

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