How to Use addled in a Sentence

addled

adjective
  • Even in a state of fatigue, my addled brain never missed a beat.
    — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 16 Oct. 2019
  • But today’s young people were too lazy or drug-addled to do them.
    — Molly Ball, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2017
  • The looks came and came and came, testing even the most un-addled short-term memory.
    — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 6 July 2018
  • My addled brain is a whiz at gathering new recipes to try and instruments to learn.
    — Jordan McMahon, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022
  • When the patient is a pain addled 95-year-old person, open heart surgery may not be the best idea .
    — Mike Oliver | [email protected], al, 10 Aug. 2019
  • His songs seemed drug-addled and lethargic, as if delivered in slow motion.
    — WSJ, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Sure, there were some addled clowns not of this realm peppered throughout the amphitheater.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 12 July 2023
  • Because the thing is, my soccer-addled son is undersized too.
    — Brad Rickman, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 June 2018
  • That’s where so much of Tristan takes place, in the addled minds of its protagonists.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The prose is frenetic, addled, guileless; Dunn was having so much fun.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 4 May 2020
  • The devices look like something out of an old science fiction movie about the tech-addled dystopian future.
    — Joy Press, Vanity Fair, 6 July 2026
  • Minter, who wore braces until high school, grew up in Florida, with a drug-addled single mother.
    — Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Now, parents are pushing back and demanding less screen time and more analog work for their algorithm-addled kids.
    — Joel Mathis, TheWeek, 30 Apr. 2026
  • His reply felt like a revelation to my quarantine-addled mind.
    — Adam Lukach, chicagotribune.com, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Messrs Safdie employ a wide range of formal techniques to put the viewer inside Howard’s addled mind.
    — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2019
  • By the time the ’60s were imploding, Brian had become more than an addled drug abuser.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Pacing and script issues, like costar Sean Bean’s addled and unproductive scenes, weigh the film down.
    — Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Noah is a debt-addled, nerdy middle-aged who feels totally emasculated by his inability to get a project off the ground.
    — Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Only a steroid-addled rival, Pavel, dares to question Jim’s position.
    — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2026
  • Emily resists but soon joins in, the Nancy to his addled Midwestern Sid.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The narration passes back and forth between the convict's 13-year-old son and his drug-addled mother, Leonie.
    — Washington Post, Houston Chronicle, 29 Dec. 2017
  • Psychiatrists testified for both the state and the defense that a person in psychosis is prone to make statements based on a belief in their addled mind.
    — Ron Wilkins, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Nov. 2024
  • The new record features a Ritalin-addled melange of vibes that often feel like Rihanna leftovers.
    — Jonny Coleman, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2019
  • Or will there be a breaking point, a moment when the addled masses reject the logic and speed of our information environment?
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2026
  • In which case, Philadelphia should do the same thing that the Amazon-addled women of Seattle have become so good at.
    — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 10 Sep. 2017
  • Most of his 30-touch games in 2025 came in the first half of the season when the 49ers were most injury-addled at receiver and tight end.
    — Matt Barrows, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2026
  • But 2008 was also a crucial period in the construction of the tech-addled world Americans now live in.
    — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2020
  • If there is a clearer indication of how the Challenger differs from the other combatants, our horsepower-addled minds cannot conceive of it.
    — Daniel Pund, Car and Driver, 12 Feb. 2020
  • When the story gets closer to the Fox News–addled present, more familiar characters rear up from unexpected angles.
    — Christopher Tayler, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
  • And the chicken has just enough of the herb’s resinous flavor to remind you of walking past a planter of flowering rosemary in some fog-addled corner of the city and running your fingers through the spiky green tresses.
    — Food Reporter, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 May 2018

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