How to Use addle in a Sentence

addle

verb

• Their brains were addled with fear.
• It's a dangerous poison that's strong enough to addle the brain.
• And now the web-addled among us can pay to have the internet taken away from us, in some form of retreat.
  — Carrie Battan, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 July 2018
• Tomas Berdych, addled by a wrist injury, fell to Diego Schwartzman.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 3 Sep. 2017
• As for Claire Denis, anybody new to her methods will be addled by her breaking and stretching of the rules.
  — Michelle McNamara, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2018
• Mike sought escape through a mind-addling use of Dust-Off, cans of compressed air used to clear debris from computer keyboards.
  — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2017
• This drug-addled, free-spirited nomad can't come up with a name for her unplanned baby.
  — Amy Shearn, Redbook, 2 Apr. 2013
• Chicken on a Raft hoards your attention without brain-addling tricks.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 1 Nov. 2019
• The deal was addled by the U.K.'s surprise vote to leave the European Union and disagreement over where the combined company's headquarters should be based.
  — Will Hadfield and Viren Vaghela, chicagotribune.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• The deal was addled by the U.K.’s surprise vote to leave the European Union and disagreement over where the combined company’s headquarters should be based.
  — Will Hadfield, Bloomberg.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• Addled by calmer markets, Flow’s first-quarter profit slumped.
  — Annie Massa, Bloomberg.com, 19 June 2017
• Our public servants should do what’s needed to bring the park into environmental balance and try to keep it that way by addling goose eggs every year.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 10 July 2019
• Visiting Cindy Sherman's New York apartment has a brain-addling effect.
  — Cindy Sherman, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Feb. 2016
• The closest the film gets to criticism of the star himself is a lengthy and striking scene of him, clearly addled by substances, going on an extravagant shopping spree at FAO Schwarz even as his guards are owed backpay.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 26 May 2017
• All of the destruction Ferguson rained down on itself for the year that followed sprang from that one errant decision: An incensed 18-year-old, his mind addled by cannabis, gave a police officer no choice.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 2 Nov. 2017
• Some intricacies lay beyond me—a hazy blur of literature about floating exchange rates and reserve currencies addled my brain.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2019
• Amateurs are flooding the internet; piracy has addled the once-dominant studios; production has atomized and scattered.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 5 May 2018
• Their brains were addled with fear.
• It's a dangerous poison that's strong enough to addle the brain.
• And now the web-addled among us can pay to have the internet taken away from us, in some form of retreat.
  — Carrie Battan, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 July 2018
• Tomas Berdych, addled by a wrist injury, fell to Diego Schwartzman.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 3 Sep. 2017
• As for Claire Denis, anybody new to her methods will be addled by her breaking and stretching of the rules.
  — Michelle McNamara, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2018
• Mike sought escape through a mind-addling use of Dust-Off, cans of compressed air used to clear debris from computer keyboards.
  — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2017
• This drug-addled, free-spirited nomad can't come up with a name for her unplanned baby.
  — Amy Shearn, Redbook, 2 Apr. 2013
• Chicken on a Raft hoards your attention without brain-addling tricks.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 1 Nov. 2019
• The deal was addled by the U.K.'s surprise vote to leave the European Union and disagreement over where the combined company's headquarters should be based.
  — Will Hadfield and Viren Vaghela, chicagotribune.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• The deal was addled by the U.K.’s surprise vote to leave the European Union and disagreement over where the combined company’s headquarters should be based.
  — Will Hadfield, Bloomberg.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• Addled by calmer markets, Flow’s first-quarter profit slumped.
  — Annie Massa, Bloomberg.com, 19 June 2017
• Our public servants should do what’s needed to bring the park into environmental balance and try to keep it that way by addling goose eggs every year.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 10 July 2019
• Visiting Cindy Sherman's New York apartment has a brain-addling effect.
  — Cindy Sherman, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Feb. 2016

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