Bemused Sentence Examples

bemused

  • He glanced at his uncle, bemused.

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  • However, if they can't hear the presenters, they're going to get a little bemused and, frankly, bored.

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  • A misplaced comma or a sentence prematurely terminated can leave the reader bemused.

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  • The sincerity of people in power always has me bemused.

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  • Bemused tourists watched 450 Microsoft employees, customers and guests file into London 's Equinox Club.

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  • She turned a pleading gaze on Bordeaux, but his bemused regard indicated no quarter there, either.

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  • He has bemused onlookers, who seem to think the experimental equipment is some sort of elaborate hoax.

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  • Bemused tourists watched 450 Microsoft employees, customers and guests file into London's Equinox Club.

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  • Afterward - she smiled gently at the recollection - she had thanked her bemused jailers for helping her to attain nirvana.

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  • It's a look of bemused wonder mirrored only by the enigmatic stone monoliths of Easter Island.

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  • Sociologists are bemused by the phenomenon of the manual-labor "virtual" games that seem to become more and more popular on Facebook.

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