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Example sentences for "muddle"

Lexicographically close words:
mudbanks; mudder; muddied; muddier; muddiness; muddled; muddles; muddling; muddy; mudfish
  1. Why haven't we thought of some way out of that beastly, clumsy squalor and muddle yet?

  2. You never muddle or cant or sentimentalise.

  3. Thank heaven we're both clear-headed and hard-headed enough to know what we're doing and not to muddle ourselves with cant about it.

  4. Such was the muddle of Henry's mind when the two returned to Mrs. Arkwright's from their afternoon stroll, and each went to his own rooms.

  5. Things get into a muddle with me--how can I give you "a start on the way of righteousness"?

  6. She was part of the insanely jumbled muddle of a world which impedes the sensible life.

  7. He made a frightful muddle of it though, not knowing the proper terms in which to describe the various materials and styles.

  8. Well, you made a pretty muddle of it anyhow," said the Wallypug.

  9. Only don't you let Weedie have it, to muddle away in politics.

  10. Lydia, I wish you and Anne would go away and let father and me muddle along alone.

  11. What does he want to muddle with that for?

  12. And really, you must excuse me, but I cannot afford to muddle my head with unnecessary figures--even to please you!

  13. I confess I never muddle myself with unnecessary figures.

  14. Half a dozen worries at once do muddle me.

  15. If we put these two elements together we are enabled to understand why the Union land policy in Ireland was such a portentous muddle and scandal.

  16. You muddled our whole system of transportation; your muddle stands to-day in all its ruinous largeness unamended, and, it may be, beyond amendment.

  17. And having so dealt with capital and coal the predominant partner next proceeded by a logical development to muddle transportation.

  18. Boys and different students, she says, muddle the people's mind with absurdities.

  19. A feeling of discontent and a muddle in his head!

  20. She said it was just like a man to muddle everything up.

  21. She understood nothing; was there ever a muddle like this?

  22. Each had its cot, and each also had its own special muddle and litter of boxes, clothes, firearms, swords, and the like.

  23. How busy they would be, and what a muddle they would make!

  24. Of what use, so she argued to herself, would it be to let Agnes know how worried she was, and into what a hopeless muddle her pretty feet had strayed?

  25. Each plant should tell its own tale, and not suffer partial extinction through a choke-muddle arrangement that makes a bank of leafage perhaps, but in which all individual beauty is hopelessly lost.

  26. The other and commoner way is nothing but a muddle from beginning to end.

  27. What had really been cruel was the terrible muddle his papers and letters had got into owing to her prolonged absence.

  28. It was all such a jolly muddle and so comfortable.

  29. Well, you see, there's such a muddle of papers, isn't there?

  30. You may call me an optimist, I suppose, down beneath the eternal muddle of things; but I feel that the ambition to acquire is good only as a process, and not as a permanent condition or the ultimate end of life.

  31. We aren't satisfied any longer, the best thought isn't satisfied, with the old clutter and muddle of ideas and sentiments.

  32. His mind seemed blank, or at best a muddle of protest.

  33. There are whole rows of days when it seems just a muddle of half-started attempts--a manner of hopeless confusion.

  34. She plunged both Sally and Gaga into a muddle by her persuasive translations of the menu, but she made up for her linguistic deficiencies by this anxious interest and by a capricious smile.

  35. It was the ghastly sense of muddle and falsehood that was oppressing her now.

  36. I lay awake for some time groaning in spirit at the thought of the mess and muddle workmen always make, and wondering how much more of the roof was likely to descend on us.

  37. It's all in a muddle and my things aren't put away.

  38. I wonder if it be a law of nature that no sooner shall a man get into a muddle with one thing, than a thousand other muddles shall come pouring in upon him, as if Muddle itself were going to swallow him up!

  39. They were vague words, "difficulties and temptations," and May knew that, but it is not possible in half an hour to straighten the muddle of many years of Belinda and Co.

  40. He had the delicious feeling--a touch of spite in it--that this would bother Time and muddle it.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "muddle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.