Example Sentences

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Given the momentum Rangers had going into it, the one-sided nature was bamboozling.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2024

“Chris said it was really important that there be something about this person that was likable or intelligent because the people that he was bamboozling are some of the most successful people in the country.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2021

Sir John told the supposed Brooke his whole “course of wooing,” and how nicely he was bamboozling the husband.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

I knew as well as he did that he was bamboozling me, that he was, as he said, only telling me—not the truth, but just what I should hear everywhere.

From The Inheritors by Conrad, Joseph

He was bamboozling her, twisting her round his finger^ as one might say.

From Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigand's of Greece by Hemyng, Bracebridge