Sample Sentences for
bemused
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    She is bemused by the way he views the world.
    bemused = puzzled
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    Carla watches my antics in the mirror, amused and bemused at the same time.  (source)
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    Her bemused eyes traveled from the huge form of the dead basilisk, over Harry, in his blood-soaked robes, then to the diary in his hand.  (source)
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    And it is no accident that we should be so bemused.  (source)
    bemused = perplexed or confused
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    Someone stepped quietly into the elevator, looking back at the search party in bemusement.  (source)
    bemusement = amusement
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    Constance shook her head bemusedly, though clearly she was delighted, and as she clambered back into her chair she handed him the little box he'd sent for.†  (source)
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    Not a word was distinct from where they stood, but the shapes and rhythms and the inflections were as lovely and as bemusing as any songs they had ever heard.†  (source)
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    But the object of language is not to bemuse grammarians, but to convey ideas, and the more simply it accomplishes that object the more effectively it meets the needs of an energetic and practical people and the larger its inherent vitality.†  (source)
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    "Well," said Richard a little bemused, "you've got to give that old Frenchman credit."  (source)
    bemused = amused
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    She shook her head in bemusement.  (source)
    bemusement = puzzlement
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    She looked from me to Petra, then slowly, bemusedly, back to me again.†  (source)
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    That summer we had seemed to be caught in a massive and bemusing tide which knew its own pace and time and would not be hurried even to the happiness which it surely promised.†  (source)
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    Boney asked, a bemused smile on her face.  (source)
    bemused = amused
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