Example sentences for: confounded

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

  • The prediction of poly(A) sites can be confounded by misannealing of the oligo(dT) primers used for reverse transcription; for example, the presence of multiple adenines within the 3' UTR can be mistaken for a poly(A) site.

  • This phenomenon has long confounded research on vitamin C, which, after almost two-dozen studies, has not been demonstrated to provide benefit in colds beyond its placebo effect.

  • This strenuous ambition was confounded by a perfectionism that, as Ellison wrote in the introduction to his volume of essays Shadow and Act , made it somewhat "unreal" to even think of himself as a writer.

  • For instance, the association between low income or non-white race and greater asthma hospitalization risk is potentially confounded by inadequate health care access.

  • The United States, after all, has been blessed (we are constantly told) with a dynamic, egalitarian sort of capitalism, one that has always rewarded individual initiative and confounded class distinctions.


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