How to Use bemused in a Sentence

bemused

adjective
  • Giddey gave a bemused nod, then a smile.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 2026
  • My cousins rose to greet me and my mother, and for a second we were all bemused.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Pochettino said with a bemused grin.
    — ABC News, 24 June 2026
  • Pochettino said with a bemused grin.
    — Greg Beacham, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026
  • Many of the British people in the audience were left bemused.
    — Diane Brady, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Glasnow threw to Freeman who tagged the bemused Bichette out.
    — Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Auriemma watched the chaos unfold wearing a bemused smirk.
    — Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 13 Mar. 2026
  • His facial expressions are often pained or bemused.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Meghan gave a theatrical, bemused shrug before returning to eating a piece of pie.
    — Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2025
  • That was John’s thing, back then, but leave it to both Beatles to have a bemused sense of class consciousness.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Sweetest children, Granny said, sounding bemused.
    — Audrey Schmidt, PEOPLE, 4 June 2026
  • Then came the World Cup, and for a month, a curious if somewhat bemused country sampled the world’s game up close.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2026
  • The fun of this drink starts, of course, with the name, which weighs in at 11 words (and one punctuation mark) and with which people tend to be both amused and bemused.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Ford went on to explain to the bemused host that Leno owns a host of nifty machines — including several 3D printers.
    — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 13 Sep. 2025
  • His bemused reaction quickly morphed into something more instructive.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Mar. 2026
  • In the footage captured early on Saturday afternoon, bemused bystanders stand on the sidewalks, staring at a minor traffic jam on a dead-end street in North Beach.
    — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Referee Francois Letexier showed Vinicius Jr a yellow card for his role in what happened, drawing a bemused look from the goalscorer.
    — Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The bemused interviewer then asked if Guardiola felt the interpretation of rules was different in the Premier League.
    — Sam Lee, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The segment was typically a rapid- fire four- minute crash through the weekend soccer headlines— a conversation between me and Joe— with the rest of the regular political pundits looking on in a bemused silence.
    — Roger Bennett, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • But just as those supporters should not be blamed for having mixed feelings, so Spurs staff would be entirely justified in feeling bemused, frustrated and appalled by any suggestion that fans do not want to get a result, just as Postecoglou was two years ago.
    — Dan Kilpatrick, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2026
  • With his brow perennially furrowed and hair slicked with sweat, Riley has the exact look and bearing of a suavely addled wrong-man figure from British thrillers of yore — and thus makes a suitably bemused proxy for the viewers in this wasteland of mounting chaos and absurdity.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Over the subsequent stories, Goodman crafts subtle investigations of the relations between siblings, the fine blend of anxiety and pride parents feel for their offspring, and the bemused affection an aunt or uncle might feel for their aimless nieces or haphazard nephews.
    — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 24 Jan. 2026
  • And Elijah Wood provides a cheeky, bemused-insider vibe as the Danforths’ lawyer, who’s overseeing the technicalities and generally hiding behind a lectern when contestants start exploding.
    — Jada Yuan, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2026
  • When the lights finally dimmed 45 minutes later, Safdie took the front of the theater after an affectionate introduction from Sacco, giving a somewhat bemused apology about the delay before diving into his remarks.
    — Elaina Patton, IndieWire, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Chuck Leavell, a member of the Allman Brothers from 1972 to 1976 and lifelong ambassador of their music, recalls learning about the unlikely union with a bemused expression.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 17 June 2026
  • What Happens Next As of now, MrBeast has not indicated any serious intention to involve himself in the NewJeans dispute beyond his bemused Twitter response.
    — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Chris Robinson is a bit bemused at the idea of a column being dedicated to legacy musicians, even if his own band, the Black Crowes, released their swaggering debut album 36 years ago and are now eligible for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2026
  • An utterly delectable novel set in Beirut during and after the Lebanese Civil War, about a 72-year-old translator of Western novels into Arabic, an eccentric steeped in books who shares with us her capacious literary sensibility and often bemused vision.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Apr. 2026

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