Example sentences for: confuse

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

  • I am an American who lives in Wales, and I have a problem with geographically challenged American friends who confuse England (just a part of the whole) and the United Kingdom, and are constantly sending mail addressed to me in Wales, England--instead of Wales, U.K.

  • This daughter's appearance beside Mitterrand's wife at the funeral generated nothing but emotional sympathy, "demonstrating once again that the French don't confuse bourgeois morality with public morality."

  • Some visitors to Sepilok confuse them with the similarly colored red-leaf monkeys — but unlike monkeys, orang-utans have no tails.

  • To confuse matters still further there are road signs in Africa marked ELEPHANT and HIPPOPOTAMUS CROSSING which mean just that.

  • The RPH isn't bothered by the fact that he's been routed before (Alexander, Alan Keyes, Pete Wilson, Pat Buchanan, Steve Forbes, Jack Kemp); that he's the most hated man in politics (Newt Gingrich); that he's a national joke (Dan Quayle); that hardly anyone outside his home state has heard of him (John Ashcroft, Bob Smith, George Pataki, Tom Ridge, John Kasich, Tommy Thompson); that most voters will confuse him with an S&L crook (Frank Keating, the governor of Oklahoma--he's never heard of you, either); or that he might not get elected if he were the next-to-last American alive (Gary Bauer).


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