How to Use flummoxed in a Sentence

flummoxed

adjective
  • Burnham plays a valuable role here, standing in for the flummoxed audience.
    — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 13 May 2024
  • The Rebels and their switching defense seemed flummoxed by it initially.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2023
  • But Take Note Our tester was a bit flummoxed by a couple of design choices.
    — Cameron Leblanc, Parents, 5 June 2025
  • In one scene, a flummoxed Gosling winds up face-to-face with Blunt, who’s pressuring him for answers.
    — Meredith Woerner, Variety, 4 May 2024
  • And first-time passengers are so flummoxed by it that there are online tutorials.
    — Dawn Gilbertson, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The Warriors, in general, look flummoxed against zone on offense.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 1 May 2025
  • The first episode zeroes in on a woman from Jefferson's younger days who left him publicly flummoxed and tongue-tied.
    — Jeremy Helligar, People.com, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Rick is still flummoxed why he, someone in perfect health, with no pre-existing conditions, was hit so hard by the disease.
    — Star Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Maybe Grief was outside the door just then, bony knuckles poised to knock but ultimately too flummoxed to follow through.
    — Kathy Flann, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The moments when his campaign has seemed the most flummoxed, the most pessimistic, are the ones when everyone seems to be paying attention to her, not him.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Texas looked equally flummoxed against the Red Raiders’ defensive onslaught and prowess on the glass in the first meeting.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Feb. 2022
  • As the next 15 minutes passed, flummoxed festival techs hovered over monitors and turntables stage left.
    — Mark Gray, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Greta is so flummoxed by this gorgeous creature standing before her that she's tempted to genuflect and kiss her hand instead of shaking it.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Greta is so flummoxed by this gorgeous creature standing before her that she’s tempted to genuflect and kiss her hand instead of shaking it.
    — Rachel Raposas, People.com, 26 June 2025
  • Minnesota didn’t play poor defensively, but was seemingly flummoxed on the offensive end all night.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 6 Apr. 2024
  • The exhausted and flummoxed Mercury seemed to be a step or two behind on defense, which gave Copper the space to make an impact on the floor.
    — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2021
  • The tech’s success rate is questionable, however, with some users being left flummoxed or even a little disturbed by the chatbot’s responses to their questions.
    — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 7 June 2023
  • Alas, those same analysts—this author included—remain flummoxed by events within Russia itself.
    — Sam Greene, Foreign Affairs, 22 Sep. 2023
  • TikTokers were equally flummoxed with the bizarre combination.
    — Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Meanwhile, two experts who monitor the San Diego real estate market carefully remain flummoxed at the terms of the deal.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2024
  • Butler had a statistically impressive game—twenty-seven points, seven rebounds, and eight assists—but looked oddly flummoxed on the floor.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2024
  • This is perhaps why so many seemed practically flummoxed when Swift just up and revealed track names for her new album Midnights on TikTok.
    — WIRED, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Yet researchers remain flummoxed in their generations-spanning quest to forge a superior theory of quantum gravity.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2023
  • At the center of it all in the Lone Star State were the always-enigmatic Latinx voters — whose voting patterns have long flummoxed pollsters.
    — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Just watch 1988's Working Girl for a masterclass in flummoxed masculinity).
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The day's White House pool report – which many news outlets rely on for a tick-tock of the president's public schedule – also appeared flummoxed at Biden's remark.
    — Charles Creitz, Fox News, 16 June 2023
  • Anyone who has asked Shildt a legitimate (and often harmless) question and gotten a flummoxed look and then a response that ranges from condescending to combative knew what was coming.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Complaints hover around common themes, both exasperated and annoyed, flummoxed and even exploited, all connecting to Kidman.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2024
  • In a cast full of mothers, the women are naturally sympathetic, triggered by the idea that something that frightening could happen to them too – only to be a little flummoxed at the full picture as more details started to come out.
    — Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
  • That’s especially true when authorities seem as flummoxed as the Biden Administration was until Thursday.
    — The Editorial Board, wsj.com, 13 Apr. 2023

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