How to Use bewildering in a Sentence

bewildering

adjective
  • The theft was brazen and bewildering, the getaway swift, the trail of clues sparse and long-since dried up.
    — AZCentral.com, 6 Oct. 2022
  • All of this was a little bewildering to watch from the sidelines.
    — New York Times, 25 May 2021
  • In short, Saga can seem bewildering; but at its core are simpler themes of love, loss, and growth.
    — Shaan Amin, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2018
  • And there’s a bewildering range of products with steep markdowns.
    — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Still, the game was within reach for the Knights until that bewildering punt.
    — Jason McDaniel, Houston Chronicle, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The second thing that happened was at once strange, bewildering and amusing.
    — Monique Judge, The Root, 30 May 2018
  • Much better to look forward with fresh hope to the next chapter of a bewildering career.
    — Liam Twomey, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2025
  • His decision to come back from a brief retirement looks more bewildering by the week.
    — Baltimore Sun, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Trump’s sense of his own royalty helps explain at least some of the bewildering changes of recent days.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Hieu initially found the city bewildering and felt homesick, but slowly the city grew on him.
    — Aniruddha Ghosal, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The platypus has long been one of nature’s most bewildering creatures.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The writing is bewildering, the rhyme scheme atrocious.
    — Sloane Crosley, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • One of them, lil, denoted the bewildering idea of wind as an entity.
    — Big Think, 18 Nov. 2025
  • The government’s gift to your child is a bewildering array of legal rights.
    — Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Sports and sights aside, the city’s often bewildering infrastructure has put on a show, too.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Still, the first half ended on a bewildering note by the Patriots.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2019
  • The shift is hardly less bewildering to Sawyer and her fellow soldiers.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2018
  • The guidance about when to use protective gear and when to avoid doing so could be bewildering and stressful.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Only time will tell if the rest of the adaptation falls to the same bewildering anachronisms as the trailer shows.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 June 2022
  • And the change, which Kissinger could have only dreamed about, is bewildering to consider.
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 1 May 2025
  • But there is such a bewildering amount of high-quality content in the game that those complaints are mere quibbles.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2018
  • To early travelers, art from the region must have looked like a rich but bewildering hybrid.
    — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
  • The Earth has racked up more than 12 straight months of record heat, a bewildering climate change milestone.
    — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 8 July 2024
  • That the novel is imperfect, often bewildering, and sometimes a mess is not the point.
    — Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 1 Jan. 2026
  • All this goes to show just how blindingly brisk and bewildering are Bitcoin’s boom-and-bust cycles.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 23 Dec. 2017
  • The scope of the theft is extraordinary, but what’s even more bewildering is that three decades later, the crime has still not been solved.
    — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2021
  • Soon, online discussion of the album turned extreme in ways that many found bewildering.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Such a promise has kept Tesla diehard customers in thrall for years (even while their patience is bewildering to the rest of us).
    — Richard Bishop, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The friction can be bewildering.
    — Kate Bernot, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Oct. 2025
  • These are the best months Being on the other side of the application flood can be bewildering.
    — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 17 May 2023

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