bewilderment
Example Sentences
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New Liverpool recruit Jeremy Jacquet, who had been caught upfield, gestured in bewilderment at his fellow Rennes defenders.
From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026
If Grace was staring down her holiday meal with equal parts courage and bewilderment, surely others were too.
From Salon • Nov. 25, 2025
They were stand-ins for mid-1940s moviegoers; more to the point, mirrors, reflecting the full range of audience reactions—love, respect, bewilderment, compassion, impatience, contempt—to the battered men recently restored to their midst.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
Elsewhere in the crowd, bewilderment laced with anger when families who had been informed that their loved ones would be released discovered they weren’t on the buses after all.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2025
We lay there in complete bewilderment, unsure what to do next.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
Vocabulary lists containing bewilderment
The Giver
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"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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