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Example sentences for "confused"

Lexicographically close words:
confrontation; confronted; confronting; confronts; confuse; confusedly; confusedness; confuses; confusing; confusingly
  1. So-called Religion in all time has almost hopelessly mixed and confused these problems.

  2. Altogether, when she went into the hotel again, she was in a very confused state of mind and heart, and was beginning to wish that she had never been born.

  3. He had rapidly learned the names of the people about him, and had not afterwards confused them, but remembered them with remarkable accuracy.

  4. Confused and turbulent as Tiverton had become, Nicholas Oldfield settled her at once.

  5. The rest of the day seemed to Dilly like a confused though not an unfamiliar dream.

  6. One moment he would be a bend in a seemingly unloosable knot of confused animality, the next he would be clinging to the top of his cage, where the others could not follow him.

  7. The next instant they felt the ground under their feet move up and down and from side to side with confused motion.

  8. The doctrine of the essay is an incoherent kind of pantheism, together with a confused sort of semi-rationalism.

  9. I allow every church or sect to answer, I am stunned by a confused and unintelligible noise.

  10. The reverend doctors have therefore confused the issue.

  11. Confused cries and sounding hurrahs soon announced the approach of the column.

  12. From the fields, bereft of workers, came the scent of hay and the heavy scent of meadow-sweet; the musky odour of the backwater was confused with them into one brooding perfume.

  13. Then confused unrest, all things vague; till at the end of his journey he stepped out of the train at Beaulieu with a furiously beating heart.

  14. It is probable, however, that the limit of his ability as a general in the field was the management of an army corps; he seems to have been confused in the attempt to direct the movements of the larger body.

  15. Forster was soon fast asleep after his night of exertion: his dreams were confused and wild; but I seldom trouble people about dreams, which are as nought.

  16. All appears confused below, but all is clear in heaven.

  17. The effect of the blow was still felt by Jackson; and although recovered from the stupor, a dull, heavy sensation affected his eyesight and confused his ideas.

  18. It moves from point to point with absolute precision, and in it there is seldom anything ambiguous, muddy, confused or uncertain.

  19. There was an odor of tobacco in the place, and several gentlemen standing about rather confused her, for she had to glance at them in looking for a waiter.

  20. He entered into another confused narrative, which brought him, in due course of time, to the dropping of the key and the picking of it up.

  21. I thought Joseph looked confused when he opened the house-door to me.

  22. Those eyes would have confused Partow himself with the steady, welling intensity of their gaze.

  23. All was confused in a red mist--red as blood.

  24. Now he was as confused in his shame as a sensitive schoolboy.

  25. Bouchard's search for the proper words of dissent left him rather confused and at a disadvantage.

  26. From the house came the confused sound of voices in puzzling chorus.

  27. The hurrying crowd and throng of vehicles 'confused her senses and her mind.

  28. He could not have told approximately at what hour his eyes had closed, and a whirling round of confused dreams were chasing each other through his slumbering brain.

  29. Certainly if this method were followed we should be preserved in great measure from the hasty, confused and frivolous legislation that at present makes up the major part of the output of our various legislative bodies.

  30. Left the Church with a confused idea that the only way to attain eternal bliss, is to go to Church every Sunday, and to give liberally to the Foreign Missionary cause.

  31. The exposure rather confused them, while Tom and Bob joined the merry Devil in a loud burst of laughter--they however bustled through the room and were quickly lost.

  32. There was a confused colloquy between all four.

  33. Whilst she was still at the mercy of her confused thoughts, the servant came and asked if she would pay the cabman.

  34. Above all, the scents in the air disturbed her, confused her mind, forced her to think in forgotten ways about the things on which her eyes fell.

  35. Though he had a confused perception that Mrs. Elgar was punishing him for forcing her to speak of his book, he was unable to change the topic and so win her approval for his tact.

  36. The Spanish Cubans had afterwards a civil war of their own, of which only confused accounts had reached us at home.

  37. In this strange age of ours the spiritual atmosphere is more confused than at any period during the last eighteen hundred years.

  38. They were lying in a confused heap together, helpless, miserable, without consciousness apparently, save a sense in each that he was wretched.

  39. Shouts various and confused at last made Daisy comprehend they were cheering her.

  40. Illustration] The young soldier was strangely enough confused by this simple question.

  41. How was I to think of that, when I was so frightened and confused that I didn't know where I was or what I was doing?

  42. When they came to me at Carlisle I was so confused that I hardly knew what to tell them.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "confused" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abashed; abroad; adrift; afflicted; agitated; ajar; aleatory; amiss; amorphous; anarchic; astray; awkward; baggy; bashful; beset; bewildered; blank; bleary; blurred; bothered; broad; chagrined; chance; chancy; chaotic; chapfallen; characterless; clashing; complex; complicated; conflicting; confounded; confused; conscious; crabbed; daedal; dark; daze; delirious; demure; devious; dim; disarranged; discomfited; discomposed; disconcerted; disconnected; disjointed; dismayed; disordered; disorderly; disorganized; disoriented; disquieted; distracted; distraught; distressed; disturbed; dizzy; dumbfounded; elaborate; embarrassed; faint; featureless; feeble; filmy; flustered; foggy; foolish; formless; frantic; fuzzy; general; grating; groggy; guessing; hairy; harsh; hazy; helpless; implicated; inaccurate; inarticulate; inchoate; incoherent; inconspicuous; indecisive; indefinable; indefinite; indeterminate; indiscriminate; indistinct; indistinguishable; inexact; intricate; involuted; involved; jangling; jarring; jumbled; kaleidoscopic; knotted; labyrinthine; lax; loose; lost; matted; maudlin; mazy; meandering; misty; mixed; mortified; muddled; muddy; multifarious; neurotic; nondescript; obscure; pale; perplexed; perturbed; promiscuous; rambling; random; roundabout; scattered; shadowy; shaken; shamefaced; shapeless; shook; shuffled; shy; skittish; snarled; stammering; subtle; sweeping; tangled; timid; timorous; troubled; twisted; uncertain; unclear; uncomfortable; undefined; undetermined; uneasy; unordered; unorganized; unrecognizable; unsettled; unspecified; upset; vague; veiled; warring; weak