be bewildered
Example Sentences
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Never again, I vowed, would a Black elder be bewildered by my lack of exposure to Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, their predecessors or their contemporaries.
From Salon • Mar. 31, 2023
Mississippi State football coach Mike Leach appeared to be bewildered about the cardboard cutouts that have aligned the seats at some football stadiums this year.
From Fox News • Sep. 28, 2020
Despite those efforts, Loran Grishow-Schade, a 33-year-old graduate student in social work at Penn, said that when “X” appears on official documents as their gender, many professors can be bewildered.
From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2020
It’s hard to imagine that he could truly be bewildered by the curiosity this friendship has engendered.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2017
I would sigh a moment, stretch myself and turn, and opening my eyes, be bewildered at that glittering sun, that hard, clean sky, so different from the soft moonlight of my dream.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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