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

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

What does surprise and bemuse me is the number of fans who have denounced it.

From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2016

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

From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2015

—Sometimes she would talk excitedly and laugh with Olivier, and seem to be keenly interested in the things they talked about, or in what he was doing: she would try to bemuse and benumb herself….

From Jean-Christophe Journey's End by Cannan, Gilbert