Sample Sentences forconfound (editor-reviewed)
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She confounded her critics.confounded = frustrated
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"It would please me to shake the teeth out of your confounded face!" replied Hold-Your-Nose Billy. (source)confounded = an old-fashioned word expressing frustration or annoyance
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When he spoke about his father, Marguerite recalled the many nights he had spent enraged at the man, confounded by his silence. (source)confounded = frustrated
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He appeared confounded for a moment. (source)confounded = confused
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"Confound it," said the Count to himself.† (source)
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She thought I'd have to Confound the examiner.† (source)
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I didn't do nothin' to that confounded Lillian Jean.† (source)
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She was paired with the one person who could confound her plans, manipulate her moves, keep her from the truth.† (source)
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The question bothered him, because he wasn't sure whether he was confounding or fulfilling their expectations.† (source)
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"Why do you lower yourself so confoundedly?" he said with suppressed passion.† (source)
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Lale has often been astounded by the things he has seen in both camps, but for Hoess to think only one girl is beautiful, out of the hundreds of thousands who have come through, truly confounds him.† (source)
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Even though they were intimately together, they were confoundingly alone.† (source)
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We resolved to dispose of ourselves and effects in any other way possible, than enter on board that ill-fated vessel more; for no state can be more miserable than a continued fear, which is a life of death, a confounder of our understandings, that sets the imagination at work to form a thousand frightful things that may never happen.† (source)
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There was one that told my lord a parcel of the confoundedest lies about me; he said that I used to drive my hogs into other folk's gardens, and a great deal more; and at last he said, he hoped I had at last brought my hogs to a fair market.† (source)
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This species of paperwork had always confounded and vexed.† (source)
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For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called, but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.† (source)
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