bemuse

Example Sentences

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Today, Troll Haven still stands sentry on the Olympic Peninsula — just as Bandy’s Southern California castles continue to amuse and bemuse Burbank residents and workers.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2023

Her response is to clam up, presenting “a terminal face—nothing in it, nothing behind it, a well-turned-out nothing” that “I thought would bemuse the gossips, confound them.”

From The New Yorker • Dec. 3, 2018

Still, the story of Stephen and Natasha Spender retains its power to shock and bemuse.

From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2015

He has a gift for coming up with odd T-shirt slogans that are likely to bemuse anyone over the age of 20, for example: "I'm Trying to Romance You".

From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2013

Here the estimate of his accomplishment is difficult to render, bemuse comparison with the existing state is almost impossible.

From Mahomet Founder of Islam by Draycott, Gladys M.