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

Misconceptions of modern powwows as sacred spaces bemuse the Ojibwe singer.

From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2022

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

For the moment it means, "To act under the influence of subliminalization; To perplex, or bemuse, or estrange with OTHERNESS."

From The Return by De la Mare, Walter