How to Use bewilderment in a Sentence

bewilderment

noun
  • There was bewilderment at those two faces in those two color schemes.
    — Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
  • My dog looked on in bewilderment.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Shock, bewilderment, a slight nausea, a sudden urge to fight back the tears that welled in my eyes.
    — Ruby Namdar, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2023
  • All were left to process the emotions, from bewilderment to despair.
    — Paulina Villegas, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Players looked around in bewilderment, but Maulet wasn't there to crush dreams.
    — Herbie Teope, NOLA.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • And so the end of that, first, will be disbelief; bewilderment.
    — The Economist, 4 Apr. 2020
  • When a few babies do manage to come along, their arrival will be met with bewilderment and scorn.
    — Nora Kenney, National Review, 22 July 2021
  • In the room that day were frustration, outrage and a lot of bewilderment.
    — Lee Van Der Voo, ProPublica, 1 Oct. 2011
  • In the Bay Area this past week, utter bewilderment took over the parks at times.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 21 Mar. 2020
  • But as Russian rockets fall, anger and bewilderment grow, as does a sense of dread.
    — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Bit and the adolescent version who passed through so much bewilderment and pain.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
  • The mourners have left, discharging at least the first stage of grief — the shock and bewilderment.
    — Nandini Balial, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2022
  • As the day unfolded my kids came home with a look of bewilderment on their face asking me what was going on.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 5 Sep. 2021
  • My friend Julie, with a look of bewilderment, pointed across a pool filled with forty black swan floaties.
    — Gigi Engle, Marie Claire, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Not out of cruelty but out of bewilderment.
    — Daren Smith, IndieWire, 13 May 2026
  • How painful her bewilderment at finding herself with two small children!
    — Elaine Blair, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Malone loves to have fun on stage, from the hip-wiggles to the genuine bewilderment that people came to see his set.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Her expressions of bewilderment were easy to see.
    — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 29 May 2026
  • By the time of the ancient Greeks, men no longer lived in terrified bewilderment in caves.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 10 Jan. 2018
  • There was no plan B in that regard, much to the bewilderment of supporters.
    — Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
  • There is, however, a sense of bewilderment in Britain as to how things went wrong so quickly.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 22 June 2026
  • Or shake your head in bewilderment over the brutal 46 minutes?
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 12 Sep. 2020
  • For much of the cruise, the Galley slung a hash of bewilderment and frustration.
    — Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2021
  • This mash-up — of those in the throes of grief and those who are being grieved — adds to the sense of bewilderment that drives the narrative.
    — Tahneer Oksman, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Now, the new name X has spurred bewilderment among users and raised questions about brand management.
    — Anumita Kaur, Washington Post, 30 July 2023
  • Twenty years later, the bewilderment and fear of that day live on in the minds of those who experienced it.
    — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The bewilderment over the content guidelines is just one way that Meta has been roiled by the war in Ukraine.
    — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The locals read these letters, pass them around, and tend to identify with the pain and bewilderment of the writers.
    — David Sarasohn, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Rhodes asked in bewilderment in a video to his TikTok account @_danielrhodess.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Over the last few weeks, the Europeans have gone from shock to bewilderment to revulsion.
    — David Brooks, The Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2025

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