How to Use confound in a Sentence

confound

verb

• The success of the show confounded critics.
• The school's team confounded all predictions and won the game.
• The strategy confounded our opponents.
• The murder case has confounded investigators.
• And this might confound your expectations, but the diesel is smoother than the gas engine.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2019
• Why the city sets aside so much of its land for golfing while our teachers, nurses and firefighters can’t afford to live here is confounding.
  — Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 7 Sep. 2019
• At the same time, a favorable court ruling for supporters could confound debate over the ballot measure.
  — Rob Davis | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2019
• And even the nature of the disease itself is confounding clinicians and public health officials.
  — Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2019
• The strategy also has confounded many industry observers for seeming to take hold with a movie that appears most suited for a theatrical release.
  — cleveland.com, 16 Sep. 2019
• His elite repertoire was confounding to begin with, and that motion — along with his masterful method of hiding the ball until the very last moment — set him apart from everyone else in the game.
  — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 10 Sep. 2019
• Last week, Pettway registered his third touchdown of the year on a 51-yard double pass from Jones that confounded Iowa’s secondary.
  — Luke Meredith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2019
• The fossil footprints, discovered during a construction project, confounded the great naturalists of the day.
  — Hans-Dieter Sues, Smithsonian, 11 Sep. 2019
• Of late, filmmaker Robert Zemeckis is a somewhat confounding figure.
  — Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 31 Oct. 2024
• The bill blocking a no-deal exit was one of a series of stinging parliamentary defeats for Johnson, a colorful and confounding politician who has been in office less than two months.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2019
• Another major issue is that a lot of the researchers’ data on those confounding variables were collected via lifestyle questionnaires people filled out when they were first recruited for the study.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 18 Sep. 2019
• Things like the sun, as well as the dark, seem to confound it.
  — Kevin T. Dugan, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2021
• That’s the Beach Boys for you: confounding until the end.
  — Will Ainsley, SPIN, 24 May 2024
• The league’s worst run defense gets worse: The Ravens’ run game was sure to confound the Cowboys.
  — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2020
• The podcast delves into the confounding details of the killing.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 24 Aug. 2023
• What’s confounding, though, is the Bears have been unable to run the ball through two games.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2024
• The second quarter was more of the same, as the Parkville zones and traps continued to confound Lansdowne.
  — Mike Frainie, Baltimore Sun, 6 Jan. 2024
• Ohio State managed to confound Illinois big man Cockburn for most of the game.
  — cleveland, 16 Jan. 2021
• But that’s why these races confound and excite us year after year.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 5 Sep. 2020
• Yet, his seeming reluctance to run the ball at times can confound.
  — Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 23 Nov. 2022
• How that driver managed to miss Lewis confounds him, James said.
  — Tonya Alanez, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Nov. 2019
• The concept of a Cabbage Patch Kid also confounded the artist.
  — Ashley Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 2 Dec. 2019
• To confound matters, an Indy player was sent off with a red card in three of the four losses.
  — Kevin Johnston, Indianapolis Star, 6 Oct. 2019
• Valenzuela would confound batters with the pitch throughout his 17-year career in the big leagues.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2021
• The Chiefs defense confounded by the Niners’ misdirection much of the game got stingy and forced a three-and-out.
  — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2020
• To tell your story to a journalist in such excruciating detail requires a confounding mix of blind faith, bravery, trust and total self-disregard.
  — Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024