How to Use flummox in a Sentence

flummox

verb

• The woman, Megha Gavaskar, is flummoxed by the question.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
• Shinnecock Hills’ small greens, dense rough and all that wind have flummoxed the world’s best all day.
  — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 14 June 2018
• This will kill,’ and then the audience is just flummoxed.
  — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2019
• The old form is in such rare use now as to have left your entire circle flummoxed.
  — Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2023
• At the time, the move flummoxed some city and county lawmakers.
  — Joshua Fechter, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Jan. 2018
• Many of the justices seemed flummoxed by the government’s stance.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 10 Dec. 2019
• San Diego’s Eric Lauer became the latest lefty to flummox the Phillies.
  — Scott Lauber, https://www.inquirer.com, 4 June 2019
• Having been around him his whole life, there’s not a whole lot that flummoxes him.
  — cleveland, 14 Jan. 2020
• Mills remains as flummoxed as anyone about the state of his errant jumper.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Jan. 2018
• As a man flummoxed by circumstance and the rifts in his own marriage, Romano is deeply touching in the role.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 June 2017
• The Mariners, meanwhile, were flummoxed by Rogers through three innings, getting just one hit.
  — Scott Hanson, The Seattle Times, 3 Sep. 2018
• Thus, both the cameras and the announcers in the booth were flummoxed by upsets in the men and women's 200-meter finals.
  — Ken Goe, OregonLive.com, 27 June 2017
• But the luge has long flummoxed U.S. athletes as well as U.S. audiences.
  — Luke Darby, GQ, 23 Feb. 2018
• Immune cells, flummoxed by the bloody disguise, largely failed to capture and kill the would-be invaders.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 3 Dec. 2019
• The trend has flummoxed BART’s management and caused the rail system’s approval ratings to tank.
  — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• To some extent, the Yankees could thank their fans for flummoxing the Astros during three games in New York this week.
  — Brian Costa, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2017
• The varied game of Andreescu flummoxed the power-hitting Osaka in the first set, as the 19-year-old built a 5-1 lead.
  — Ravi Ubha, CNN, 5 Dec. 2019
• Grammarly could help me spell even the words that regularly flummoxed MS Word and Google.
  — Lisa Wood Shapiro, WIRED, 18 June 2018
• His fastball sat 95-97 miles per hour, and both his changeup and slider dove out of the zone in ways that flummoxed his opponents.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2023
• She wasn’t flummoxed by abrupt changes in circumstance and locale.
  — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2018
• Three plays later, on third-and-long, Unitas flummoxed the defense, bringing four wide receivers to the line of scrimmage.
  — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 27 Jan. 2024
• Investors were flummoxed by the deal’s potential price tag.
  — Alexander Osipovich, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2020
• But in that Thursday night game, Ohtani appeared flummoxed for perhaps the first time in his proper big-league career.
  — Ted Berg, For The Win, 13 Apr. 2018
• Jokic will shred the double teams and digs that flummoxed Embiid.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
• The Vikings have a first-time head coach in Dennis Gates, and the U wasn’t flummoxed by the unknowns that come with an inconclusive scouting report.
  — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 5 Nov. 2019
• The Tigers, meanwhile, were flummoxed by right-hander Grant Anderson in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 31 May 2023
• However after flummoxing Mazurkiewicz, Pele great was then unable to find the net with his shot.
  — Zahid Mahmood, CNN, 12 June 2018
• And he's alleged that the trade system with Canada causes a security threat to the US, which flummoxed Trudeau.
  — Z. Byron Wolf, CNN, 13 June 2018
• But Shinnecock, which hosted the tournament for the fifth time, has been known to flummox the world’s best golfers, as the late part of Saturday’s round demonstrated.
  — Karen Crouse, New York Times, 17 June 2018
• The goat’s loose skin made the dog’s lunges at its throat ineffective, flummoxing the dog, and the goat couldn’t work out why the dog — in lieu of head-butting back with its horns — kept nipping from beneath.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024