Use confused in a sentence
Sentences starting with confused
- Confused and wandering statement. [5]
- Confused with her shame was the memory of a delirious joy, yet no sooner would she give herself up, trembling, to this memory when in turn it was penetrated by qualms of resentment, defiling its purity. [9]
- Confused and ever-increasing crowds were running back to where five minutes before the troops had passed the Emperors. [2]
Sentences ending with confused
- Although his dancing was perfect, he lost the step without apparent cause, his expression changed, and for the moment he seemed to be utterly confused. [9]
- A day or two later Doctor Rice asked the millionaire to interest himself a little in Clemens's business affairs, which he thought a good deal confused. [5]
- And we got things confused. [5]
- My head is so confused. [10]
- She felt, as she listened, the pressure of his sincerity and force, and had to strive to prevent her thoughts from becoming confused. [9]
- All my subsequent reflections were confused. [4]
- And then came perplexities, difficulties, interests, and conflicting passions in life that he had not suspected, good that looked like evil, and evil that had an alloy of virtue, and the way was confused. [4]
- For an instant Jethro was confused. [11]
- He had not intended to propose marriage, and when he tried to review the circumstances that had led to this he became confused. [9]
- I am, I have--my heart--my brain, everything is confused. [10]
Short sentences using confused
- Your articulation is confused. [6]
- Everything seemed confused and blank. [4]
- He grew confused. [2]
- She was confused. [11]
- Confused? [2]
More example sentences with the word confused in them
- The forces at work in a human intelligence to bring harmony out of its discordant movements are as mysterious, as miraculous, we might truly say, as those which give shape and order to the confused materials out of which habitable worlds are evolved. [6]
- At the first words O'Ryan put a hand on himself and tried to grasp the meaning of it all, but his entrance and the subsequent applause had confused him. [11]
- The following afternoon Wolf sought Barbara again, and now for the first time succeeded in relating regularly and clearly what, constantly interrupted by her impatience, he had told in a confused medley the day before. [10]
- Blushing, and confused with shyness, she remained standing by Caesar's seat; and though she only ventured to raise her eyes now and then for a stolen look, she felt herself the object of a hundred curious, defiant, bold, or contemptuous glances. [10]
- The officer, Timokhin, with his red little nose, standing on the dam wiping himself with a towel, felt confused at seeing the prince, but made up his mind to address him nevertheless. [2]
- Natasha watched him with an intent gaze that confused him, as if she were trying to find in his face the answer to some question. [2]
- Train and Twain were sometimes confused by the very unlettered; or pretendedly, by Mark Twain's friends. [5]
- The youth's answers were short and confused, but his looks betrayed that he would fain have said quite other things than those which his indocile tongue allowed him to reiterate timidly. [10]
- Our militia company were not learned, and the explanation confused them; so they called him Peterson Dunlap. [5]
- I am afraid we should get a good deal confused even in reading our Shakespeare if we did not look back now and then at the dramatis personae. [6]
- And her mind was confused, and her heart was troubled and wrung. [9]
- On reaching the village he dismounted and went to the nearest house, intending to rest if but for a moment, eat something, and try to sort out the stinging and tormenting thoughts that confused his mind. [2]
- Though she came upon the count in his dressing gown every day, he invariably became confused and begged her to excuse his costume. [2]
- Startled, sobered, confused, Ulrich sought for words, and at last stammered: "We have, we wanted . [10]
- It had all touched him, confused him; and now he had a kind of anger. [11]
- Westminster Abbey is too crowded with monuments to the illustrious dead and those who have been considered so in their day to produce any other than a confused impression. [6]
- The world seemed to whirl around her, right and wrong and duty in a confused maze. [4]
- Lali had grown to like Mrs. Townley, and when they parted she spoke a few words quickly in her own tongue, and then immediately was confused, because she remembered that she could not be understood. [11]
- From time to time, as he talked, his eyes sought hers boldly, and in their dark pupils were tiny points of light that stirred and confused her, made her wonder what was behind them, in his soul. [9]
- And by this time I have got myself so tangled up in the intricacies of this extraordinary case that I shall have to give up any further attempt to advise you--I might get confused and fail to make myself understood. [5]
- The longer he thought, tormenting himself to find some way out of it all, the more confused he became, and the more impotent his efforts at resistance. [10]
- It is because they get him confused with that Lazarus who had no merit but his virtue, and virtue never has been as respectable as money. [5]
- In Laura's room there were the marks of a confused and hasty departure, drawers half open, little articles strewn on the floor. [5]
- The horror of the thing had struck him dumb, and his mind was one confused mass of conflicting thoughts. [11]
- I refer to the speedy revision of our confused and wholly inadequate American copyright laws, and later on to a readjustment of our international relations. [4]
- For an instant the people in the room were a confused mass, floating away into a blind distance. [11]
- These were perhaps the only times when her face was the mirror of her confused, vague and troubled youth. [11]
- With respect to the latter theory the standard and the motive of conduct have no doubt often been confused, but they are really in some degree blended. [1]
- The horses showered the fine dry snow on the faces of those in the sleigh--beside them sounded quick ringing bells and they caught confused glimpses of swiftly moving legs and the shadows of the troyka they were passing. [2]
- I could see the dim blur of the windows, but in my turned-around condition they were exactly where they ought not to be, and so they only confused me instead of helping me. [5]
- When they had testified, she rose and reviewed their testimony in a few words, pronounced it vague, confused, and of no force, then she placed the Paladin again on the stand and began to search him. [5]
- Pierre had been taken by one set of soldiers and led first to one and then to another place with dozens of other men, and it seemed that they might have forgotten him, or confused him with the others. [2]
- The old count, suddenly setting to work, kept passing from the yard to the house and back again, shouting confused instructions to the hurrying people, and flurrying them still more. [2]
- There was a sudden disturbance in the antechamber, with a confused sound of cries and shouting. [10]
- In French the story is too confused and chaotic and unreposeful and ungrammatical and insane; consequently it could only cause grief and sickness--it could not kill. [5]
- While he was still at some distance a confused noise of screaming, laughing, chattering and tittering reached his ears. [10]
- When I had spoken so feelingly, he stood for a moment, flushing and puffing, as if confused by the compliment in the tone, and then he answered, "I'm to keep you safe till word comes from the King what's to be done with you. [11]
- He did not speak at once, for his ears, keener than hers, were listening to a confused sound of voices coming from the shore. [11]
- We have had something to say occasionally of the art of conversation, which is in danger of being lost in the confused babel of the reception and the chatter of the dinner-party--the art of listening and the art of talking both being lost. [4]
- They were, however, so confused that a pull at one string tangled them all. [11]
- These commands were so confused and mingled in utterance that any one less familiar with the speaker would scarcely have comprehended what they required of her, but Ledscha understood and was ready to obey. [10]
- At last he slowly rose, rubbed his eyes as if waking from some confused dream, drew himself up proudly, and scanned the place with searching eyes. [10]
- At the first sight, his attention was claimed by the confused medley and the many heart-rending signs of the horrors practised by man on man. [10]
- I felt that she was perfectly cool, while I was a little confused, and ashamed too, that I had attempted to be playfully satirical. [11]
- For an instant she stood embarrassed and confused, then she addressed herself to Stafford. [11]
- But scarcely had she discovered that her mistress had fainted, when she heard the garden filling with people, a confused sound of men's and eunuchs' voices, and the notes of the trumpet used to summon the sentries. [10]
- Near the door sat Miss Sophy, still fluttered and confused by the attentions of Mr Cheggs, and by her side Richard Swiveller lingered for a moment to exchange a few parting words. [12]
- I left Great Salt Lake a good deal confused as to what state of things existed there--and sometimes even questioning in my own mind whether a state of things existed there at all or not. [5]
- To understand and remember them was impossible, and she gazed in astonishment at the old man who so clearly comprehended the confused tangle and drew from it so readily just what he needed for his purpose. [10]
- In spite of Prince Andrew's disagreeable, ironical tone, in spite of the contempt with which Rostov, from his fighting army point of view, regarded all these little adjutants on the staff of whom the newcomer was evidently one, Rostov felt confused, blushed, and became silent. [2]
- Her heart was pounding as she climbed the dark stairs and thrust open the door, and she stood a moment on the threshold almost choked by the fumes of tobacco, bewildered by the scene within, confused by the noise. [9]
- Once the Spirit possesses us truly, we are no longer troubled and confused by texts. [9]
- That was why Petya had blushed and grown confused when Denisov asked him whether he could stay. [2]
- In the slight pause Carterette made, a hundred confused torturing thoughts swam through her mind and presently floated into the succeeding sentences of the letter: "'As for me, I'm like Rabot's mare, I haven't time to laugh at my own foolishness. [11]
- No intelligible words passed the lips of either the mother or the son at this meeting; nothing but a confused medley of tender and uncouth natural sounds, which no language knows. [10]
- Sights, sounds, motions, passed in a confused way through his mind as the smell of the glue crept through his nostrils; and he struggled hard to remember. [11]
- She can pick out what threads of sense may be wound off from the tangle of his ideas when they are crowded and confused, as they are apt to be at times. [6]
- He left in order not to obstruct the commander in chief's undivided control of the army, and hoping that more decisive action would then be taken, but the command of the armies became still more confused and enfeebled. [2]
- I could hear only a confused murmur of voices, through which ran twice, "No, no, monsieur," in Alixe's soft, clear voice. [11]
- Laying the sjambok on the table among the books in delicate bindings and the bowls of flowers, she stood and looked at it with confused senses for a long time. [11]
- A confused sound of voices, mingling with her dreams, awoke her. [12]
- My own recollections of the evening, unclouded by its festivities, but confused by its multitudinous succession of introductions, are about as definite as the Duke of Wellington's alleged monosyllabic description of the battle of Waterloo. [6]
- He could think of nothing quite clearly; everything was confused and shifting in his mind. [11]
- The confused blending of many human voices reached her from beyond the garden wall. [10]
- Jean Jacques' recital of her father's tale had confused her for a moment, it was so true yet so untrue, so full of lies and yet so solid in fact. [11]
- A confused notion of all this was in her thoughts when she talked with Father Damon, while the gentlemen were in the smoking-room. [4]
- It could be no small matter, that induced the clear-headed, resolute man to utter such confused language. [10]
- But Paris and Nantes and Rouen and Havre abashed and discomfited him, played havoc with his self-esteem, confused his brain, and vexed him by formality, and, more than all, by their indifference to himself. [11]
- She had learned much since she came to Greyhope, and yet she could not at that moment have told exactly why she asked Richard the question that had confused him, nor did she know quite what lay behind the question. [11]
- The youthful architect's mind was confused by the multitude of suggestions which were crowding in upon it, and which he had not yet had time or developed mature strength sufficient to reduce to order. [6]
- The Emperor, my master..." but the sight of the Emperor's eyes bent on him confused him. [2]
- Inside, the old man stared round him in a confused and troubled way, but his motions were quiet and abstracted and he looked like some old viking, his workaday life done, come to pray ere he went hence forever. [11]
- Other columns after losing half their men were retreating in disorderly confused masses. [2]
- He hesitated, a little confused, then turned timidly toward the King, saying, "I may go now? [5]
- She was a little confused in her mind where to go; but an instinct kept her course to the left, and consequently farther away from her fawn. [4]
- It was very late when he awoke, and opened his eyes to a confused sense of some great calamity. [4]
- But he withdrew it quickly, for from the impluvium arose the rattle of arms, and loud, confused noise. [10]
- I could see it in her eyes, and then she turned red and confused, and at length said: "But wouldn't you have rich men do good with their money? [4]
- I didn't explain it any more because he said the explanation confused him. [5]
- At first all is in patches and confused, and then it folds out--if not clearly, still so I can understand--and the words I repeat come as if filtered through many brains to mine. [11]
- But my mind is confused, these days: there are reasons for it.... Is this the beginning of the procession? [5]
- Without him, travel is a bitter harassment, a purgatory of little exasperating annoyances, a ceaseless and pitiless punishment--I mean to an irascible man who has no business capacity and is confused by details. [5]
- His exposition of inequality is confused, and it is not possible always to tell whether he means inequality of possessions or of political rights. [4]
- The uncomfortable position in which they had put him and turned him over again confused his thoughts, and when he came to himself a third time it was in the complete stillness of the night. [2]
- Thousands of candles in the chandeliers and candelabra diffused a radiance as brilliant as that of day and, confused by the noise and waves of light which surged around her, she had drawn closer to her father, clinging to him for protection. [10]
- He became confused in his speech and stopped in the middle of what he was saying. [2]
- But the mother in her pleaded, commanded, ruled confused emotions to quiet. [11]
- I made sure I had seen it before, and yet I did not know it; and the more I puzzled over it the more confused I became. [9]
- When they saw him, they started, confused and dismayed. [11]
- I then begged him to go and suggest a distance, for my mind was growing weak and confused under the strain which had been put upon it. [5]
- As she stood helpless and confused, the Seigneur called hoarsely: "De la Foret--De la Foret! [11]
- On seeing Pierre he grew confused at first, but noticing embarrassment on Pierre's face immediately grew bold and, staggering on his thin legs, advanced into the middle of the room. [2]
- Among the Romans he caught sight of some laughing faces, and hurt, humiliated, confused, scarcely capable of speaking a word, and yet moved by the desire to justify himself, he stammered out: "I have--I meant to assure--No, I am no spy! [10]
- Her wits must have been a good deal confused by the strange sights of the evening. [6]
- A confused, anxious, half-fearful look crept into the wide blue eyes. [11]
- While examining the hair-dyes used by the Queen she saw, lurking in the background of what was still unexplained, and therefore confused her mind, fresh and serious perils. [10]
- It was not grief--no quiet heartache that disturbed--but a confused blending of wrath and sorrow. [10]
- She grew confused, glanced round, and, seeing the doll she had thrown down on one of the tubs, picked it up. [2]
- The business was getting a little confused. [5]
- The procession of German, Spanish, Hungarian, Bohemian, and Italian dignitaries swam in a confused medley before her eyes. [10]
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