Example Sentences

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Maybe knowing so many people is behind his sweating, flustering, and giggling.

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2025

Even now I couldn’t tell what Harry wanted from me, or whether flustering me was just part of his fun.

From Slate • May 27, 2023

Colorado got here by flustering opponents into making mistakes, and that recipe is working again in the final.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 19, 2022

The Chargers lost to the Broncos 28-13 on an afternoon that had been a closely contested, sometimes flustering, often confounding affair — until they crumbled.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2021

The man was admitted, and his heavy step up the spiral stair, flustering in the toil of a vain precipitude in the dark entrance, declared the impatience of his intelligence.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III by Various