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.
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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
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Tomas Berdych, addled by a wrist injury, fell to Diego Schwartzman.
—Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 3 Sep. 2017
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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
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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
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This drug-addled, free-spirited nomad can't come up with a name for her unplanned baby.
—Amy Shearn, Redbook, 2 Apr. 2013
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Chicken on a Raft hoards your attention without brain-addling tricks.
—Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 1 Nov. 2019
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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
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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
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Addled by calmer markets, Flow’s first-quarter profit slumped.
—Annie Massa, Bloomberg.com, 19 June 2017
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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
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Visiting Cindy Sherman's New York apartment has a brain-addling effect.
—Cindy Sherman, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Feb. 2016
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Addled by calmer markets, Flow’s first-quarter profit slumped.
—Annie Massa, Bloomberg.com, 19 June 2017
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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
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Visiting Cindy Sherman's New York apartment has a brain-addling effect.
—Cindy Sherman, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Feb. 2016
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