Example Sentences

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The Times reviewed “UHF” back in the day, with the critic writing, “As an actor, Yankovic alternates between screaming and staring confusedly into space.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2022

The day before the Dear Woman event Mary's neighbours are giving their six-day-old baby girl a bath in a plastic tub on the porch - cooing to the infant who squints back confusedly.

From BBC • Sep. 27, 2021

“Bonjour Tristesse” works in part, Rappaport argues, because as a confusedly dissolute teenager vacationing in the South of France, Seberg was playing a character close to her own age and situation.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2020

That scene reminded me of the first few episodes of the season, when the Grimes people themselves are wandering confusedly through the inner hallways of the prison.

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2013

Neville turned very pink and blinked confusedly; Professor McGonagall had never paid him a compliment before.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling