bemuse

Example Sentences

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Today, Troll Haven still stands sentry on the Olympic Peninsula — just as Bandy’s Southern California castles continue to amuse and bemuse Burbank residents and workers.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2023

In normal times, such veneration tends to bemuse skeptics who associate Britain’s health service with dilapidated hospitals, overworked doctors and long waits for surgery.

From New York Times • May 12, 2020

Her response is to clam up, presenting “a terminal face—nothing in it, nothing behind it, a well-turned-out nothing” that “I thought would bemuse the gossips, confound them.”

From The New Yorker • Dec. 3, 2018

Still, the story of Stephen and Natasha Spender retains its power to shock and bemuse.

From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2015

This poetry is also musically astute and demanding; it may surprise and alert the parental reader; and it has its share of archaisms and poeticisms, which, contrary to adult surmise, bemuse and fascinate children.

From Songs of Childhood by Hecht, Anthony