How to Use bewilder in a Sentence

bewilder

verb
  • He is bewildered by what life throws at him.
    — Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 7 Nov. 2025
  • But Judge was the only one who wasn’t bewildered by the move.
    — Chris Kirschner, The Athletic, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The more than a decade and a half that’s passed since a men’s player won a grand slam event bewilders.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2019
  • But both the music video and her response to it were bewildering.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Babb acknowledged that the team was bewildered at the stunning turn of events.
    — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 30 May 2025
  • By his senior year, Siler was bewildered at the plays his third baseman could make.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2023
  • Trump was also bewildered as to the reason for the bloodshed.
    — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 2 May 2017
  • The women say the frequent questions about their head scarves bewildered them.
    — Sui-Lee Wee Nyimas Laula, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2024
  • In April, the president was among those bewildered by his fall.
    — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 27 Nov. 2025
  • For three years straight, he’s kept up a pace that bewilders the industry’s leading comics.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 17 June 2026
  • The behavior of the driver of the car that killed her husband bewilders her.
    — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 15 July 2019
  • But there are a lot of frenemies and the alliances can be bewildering.
    — Fortune, 7 Aug. 2019
  • But at the moment the Rapids striker and his teammates are bewildered by what ails the team.
    — John Meyer, The Denver Post, 6 May 2017
  • Lynch wanted to challenge you — to entice you, to repel you, to bewilder you.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The cat, named Ameera, looked bewildered by her family early start to the day.
    — Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
  • For some reason, people are bewildered this hot 26-year-old guy could be a virgin.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 20 Nov. 2018
  • My goal isn’t to hurt them or to bewilder them with a puzzle but to challenge their maps of reality.
    — Anna Silman, The Cut, 13 June 2018
  • Some of the children were as young as 5 or 6, looking bewildered, crying in fear.
    — Michael Kiefer, azcentral, 8 June 2018
  • Madrid led 3-1 at the break and United’s players walked off the pitch bewildered.
    — Andy Mitten, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Dozens of children, some as young as toddlers, were bewildered when they were picked up from school and taken to makeshift shelters.
    — Adeel Hassan, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Children huddled, damp and bewildered, until aid workers drove them away in the back of a pickup truck.
    — Cara Anna, The Seattle Times, 30 Mar. 2019
  • Ten years ago, the Kardashians’ floods of content bewildered us.
    — M. J. Corey, New Yorker, 24 May 2025
  • Walking into the local bike shop, I was bewildered by the choices (and prices) of the best bikes.
    — Christine Frietchen, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 May 2020
  • But rather than have one last chance at an upset, the Lions were left baffled and bewildered by what happened.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2017
  • Now, many millions of Americans are bewildered by events.
    — David French, Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • When Daphna posed the question to the room, Annie looked bewildered.
    — Julia Whelan Krish Seenivasan Lance Neal, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
  • In the moment, Kyle looked bewildered that the musician had singled him out, smiling with his mouth open in shock.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 20 May 2025
  • There aren’t many ways to earn a club’s first win better than bewildering the league’s defending champions at their place.
    — Braidon Nourse, Denver Post, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Richardson left the White House bewildered and uncertain of what would happen next.
    — Bob Woodward, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2018
  • Indeed, bewildered by the limitless orb, the brain and the eye strain to reconcile the new perspective.
    — Tara Anne Dalbow, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2024

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