bewilder

Example Sentences

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If the soul of Leif Erikson were to materialize inside his statue for a day, much of what he saw would bewilder him.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 13, 2023

Thanksgiving is a time for making people happy, not for persuading them to drink avant-garde styles that you love but that may bewilder mainstream drinkers.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2021

And he goes about it expertly, bullishly and with giddily perverse intent to bewilder.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2020

Home-schooled by religious parents, she got into tech only after her pursuits of her first two academic passions — physics and philosophy — were thwarted by institutional failures that still seem to bewilder her.

From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2020

Actually, it’s far, far worse than that because AT maps—for reasons that bewilder me beyond speculation—provide less detail than even their meager scale allows.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson