How to Use bamboozle in a Sentence

bamboozle

verb
  • These are some red flags to look for and tips to protect yourself from getting bamboozled.
    — Daniel Wine, CNN, 17 Mar. 2025
  • We got bamboozled into staying in this shack on the beach that had rats running around at night.
    — Juliet Pennington, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
  • Someone might use their power to bamboozle you.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 5 Aug. 2025
  • But count on the Ducks finding new and bamboozling ways to lose to the top teams in the North.
    — Jon Wilner, The Denver Post, 2 Sep. 2019
  • But keep in mind, as substantial as those dollars look, no one is being bamboozled here.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2019
  • Their unique styles of wing wizardry were once enough to bamboozle the most resolute of defences.
    — SI.com, 19 May 2018
  • Refuse to get bamboozled by someone offering something too good to be true.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2025
  • People were bamboozled by the roly-poly big-eyed cuteness — such clips have drawn in millions of viewers.
    — Brian Munoz, NPR, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The youngest generation is bamboozling its elders with terms all their own.
    — Linda Marx, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • His serve is monstrous; his forehand is potent; his backhand slice is bamboozling.
    — Ava Wallace, New York Times, 1 July 2026
  • Investors, customers and constituents may be bamboozled—but the climate will not be.
    — Andrew Leahey, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Meanwhile, celebrities attempt to bamboozle each other in this new game show.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2022
  • His new changeup ducked under bats to bamboozle the Mariners’ lefties.
    — Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The point of all this wasn't so much to bamboozle the enemy as to place a strong sense of uncertainty in their minds.
    — David Szondy march 25, New Atlas, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Minnesota was bamboozled by Golden State’s zone at the end of the first half.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 13 May 2025
  • Lenders are more easily bamboozled by fake spreadsheets than by fake factories.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Frank concluded that many Kansans had been bamboozled by populist anti-elitism.
    — U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2026
  • Even if my body retained a perfect memory of my vaccines’ contents, these changes might still bamboozle it.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2021
  • The point is not to confuse or bamboozle people, but to eventually find a way to think that makes more sense and is a little less murky.
    — Stephon Alexander, Wired, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The consumer alert, issued this week, cautioned travelers against getting bamboozled by a deal that may be just too good to be true.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Much of this has to do not with Democrats being bamboozled but with state Republicans.
    — U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2026
  • The virus, too, will keep changing, and could one day bamboozle even bodies whose immune safeguards remain intact.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Basic tasks like sending emails and sharing documents can bamboozle them.
    — Tharin Pillay, Time, 4 Nov. 2025
  • If, in the first movie, Arthur was the shy, weird loser rejected by all women, now he’s being bamboozled by one.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Son bamboozled his marker with a couple of quick stepovers, dropped his shoulder and drilled a left-footed shot into the bottom corner.
    — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Here's hoping that the present under next year's tree is the satisfaction of knowing that, this time around, voters weren't bamboozled.
    — Ben Joravsky, Chicago Reader, 20 Dec. 2017
  • But that doesn’t always work; sometimes T cells still aren’t motivated to attack, even if they haven’t been bamboozled.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 6 July 2017
  • On Tuesday, the board chair’s intent to bamboozle voters came into even sharper focus.
    — U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
  • At trial, Laffitte did not dispute the facts, but claimed he’d been bamboozled by Murdaugh as part of his sprawling scheme.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 14 Nov. 2024
  • And now, a class action has been filed against Spotify for allegedly bamboozling consumers.
    — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2025

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