How to Use bewildering in a Sentence

bewildering

adjective

• 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
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• The striking contrast with everything heard earlier — not just the music but the blood-and-guts oratory — was bewildering, and in the midst of the temporary bewilderment, Melania emerged in her trim, bright-red skirt suit.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
• Our gray matter performs a bewildering mashup of overlapping functions, some widely distributed across the brain, others more localized.
  — George Musser, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024