How to Use confuse in a Sentence

confuse

verb

• You must be confusing me with someone else.
• The general was trying to confuse the enemy.
• The new evidence only confused matters further.
• The agency also warns against letting children take the mail from a carrier, lest the dog confuse this with a threat.
  — Matthew Kitchen, Chron, 25 Aug. 2022
• However, her version is not to be confused with the film’s official soundtrack.
  — Angel Saunders, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
• But the names could lead to issues if people shorten them, confusing them with the northern giant hornet species.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2024
• Asking a compound question in a survey can skew your results and confuse your analysis.
  — Sara Steever, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
• People confuse the issue of low wages versus low family incomes.
  — David Neumark, WSJ, 15 Aug. 2022
• Brown recluse spiders are found mostly in the South and Southwest and are often confused with other brown spiders.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 6 Dec. 2024
• Those little arrow logos, Baldwin said, confuse the issue.
  — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 11 Aug. 2022
• Give your sophisticated cat a classic name or confuse everyone by naming your spicy cat something like Angel.
  — Maggie Horton, Country Living, 12 Aug. 2022
• These tools blur the line between reality and fiction, which can confuse audiences, especially younger viewers.
  — Gerui Wang, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
• Phantom-limb sensations are a very different variety of confusing messages of the nervous system.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
• Presenting such evidence could also confuse jurors, Bader said.
  — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2022
• The Sun defense aimed to disrupt and confuse the Sky, forcing them into sloppy giveaways and shot-clock violations early in the first quarter.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2022
• The lawsuit also says Duke participated in campaigns to confuse the public about whether climate change was real to avoid stricter regulations.
  — Jeff Brady, NPR, 4 Dec. 2024
• Specialized jargon crafted to confuse and bamboozle is lingua franca aboard, with halyards, sheets, and vanes slithering into a stupefying knot inside a novice’s skull.
  — Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 28 Aug. 2022
• The rest of the cast (and Cohen) were confused by this.
  — Meredith Woerner, Variety, 10 Jan. 2024
• At times, the Dome of the Rock – a shrine – and Al-Aqsa – a mosque – have been confused as one and the same.
  — Ken Chitwood, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2023
• The Thompson Twins – not to be confused with the 1980s band – were among the best dressed players at the draft.
  — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 24 June 2023
• But Booth and Herold got confused in the night and rowed in the wrong direction.
  — Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
• No one will confuse the last-place A’s with the 1927 Yankees.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• Don’t get confused, there are 16 Big 12 schools (for now).
  — Matt Wadleigh, The Enquirer, 11 Aug. 2023
• The Cowboys chase and confuse some of the league’s best quarterbacks.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2023
• The Dolphins run a lot of very fast pre-snap shifts, which can confuse the defense.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 13 Nov. 2022
• No one could confuse it with the valet kind or the at-the-mall kind of parking; this is the parking that’s done in lovers’ lanes.
  — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2023
• The flies were confused by this bizarro-world plume and moved away from the center rather than toward it.
  — Dana MacKenzie, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2023
• Locals avoid Google maps which has been known to confuse rivers for roads.
  — Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 7 Oct. 2024
• Trolling, most Alaskans know, is not to be confused with trawling, the dragging of nets through the water.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Aug. 2023
• The film starts with a very old woman and ends with a very young girl who has short hair and could be confused to be a boy.
  — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Dec 2024