Example sentences for: bemused

How can you use “bemused” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • So I ate my meal silently, looking faintly bemused at their complaints.

  • Some critics call it his "best album in years" (Tony Scherman, Entertainment Weekly ). Others are bemused by Lanois' addition of xylophones, organ, Caribbean rhythm, and atmospheric hoopla.

  • Meanwhile, economists are a bit bemused, because they can't quite understand his point.

  • I was bemused to notice that throughout the hospital there were signs in Russian as well as English.

  • And its Creole-inflected language is described as "prose saturated in a kind of bemused gorgeousness" (Richard Bernstein, the New York Times ). The New Yorker 's John Updike dissents, calling Chamoiseau too self-conscious, "a Céline who has read Lévi-Strauss and Derrida.


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