How to Use flummoxed in a Sentence

flummoxed

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• Texas looked equally flummoxed against the Red Raiders’ defensive onslaught and prowess on the glass in the first meeting.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Feb. 2022
• The Padres looked flummoxed throughout; five of Nelson’s seven strikeouts came on called third strikes.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 5 Sep. 2022
• The exhausted and flummoxed Mercury seemed to be a step or two behind on defense, which gave Copper the space to make an impact on the floor.
  — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2021
• The Rebels and their switching defense seemed flummoxed by it initially.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2023
• Maybe Grief was outside the door just then, bony knuckles poised to knock but ultimately too flummoxed to follow through.
  — Kathy Flann, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
• Andrew Unterberger: It’s gotta be more about timing, because I am just flummoxed as to why this song of all songs is the one to take Hozier to the penthouse.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 23 Apr. 2024
• Rick is still flummoxed why he, someone in perfect health, with no pre-existing conditions, was hit so hard by the disease.
  — Star Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
• And first-time passengers are so flummoxed by it that there are online tutorials.
  — Dawn Gilbertson, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2022
• This is perhaps why so many seemed practically flummoxed when Swift just up and revealed track names for her new album Midnights on TikTok.
  — WIRED, 28 Oct. 2022
• The day's White House pool report – which many news outlets rely on for a tick-tock of the president's public schedule – also appeared flummoxed at Biden's remark.
  — Charles Creitz, Fox News, 16 June 2023
• Meanwhile, two experts who monitor the San Diego real estate market carefully remain flummoxed at the terms of the deal.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2024
• The tech’s success rate is questionable, however, with some users being left flummoxed or even a little disturbed by the chatbot’s responses to their questions.
  — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 7 June 2023
• Just watch 1988's Working Girl for a masterclass in flummoxed masculinity).
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 25 Mar. 2022
• In a test in two of the world’s most volatile countries, demotion worked well in Ethiopia, but poorly in Myanmar — a difference that flummoxed engineers, according to a 2020 report included in the documents.
  — NBC News, 18 Nov. 2021
• In a test in two of the world’s most volatile countries, demotion worked well in Ethiopia, but poorly in Myanmar -- a difference that flummoxed engineers, according to a 2020 report included in the documents.
  — Sam McNeil and Victorial Milko, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2018
• Minnesota didn’t play poor defensively, but was seemingly flummoxed on the offensive end all night.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 6 Apr. 2024
• Butler had a statistically impressive game—twenty-seven points, seven rebounds, and eight assists—but looked oddly flummoxed on the floor.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2024
• Alas, those same analysts—this author included—remain flummoxed by events within Russia itself.
  — Sam Greene, Foreign Affairs, 22 Sep. 2023
• Authorities remain flummoxed by 16 that allegedly occurred in L.A. County, and detectives are launching a public push for answers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2021
• That’s especially true when authorities seem as flummoxed as the Biden Administration was until Thursday.
  — The Editorial Board, wsj.com, 13 Apr. 2023
• Yet researchers remain flummoxed in their generations-spanning quest to forge a superior theory of quantum gravity.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2023
• But stablecoins — an asset class worth roughly $120 billion, according to CoinMarketCap — have also raised alarms in Washington and flummoxed policymakers.
  — Eli Tan, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023
• The flummoxed, totally unprepared expert immediately panics.
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024