Example sentences for: confusing

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

  • The second problem is the (unexplained) style 24, which should properly be designated 5.24: there are only 12 chapters, so it is confusing to see a reference, apparently to a chapter, that is really a reference to a subsection.

  • It's worth remembering that Kundera's sexual parables unfold against a backdrop of totalitarian repression, whereas our own grapple with a more confusing legacy: the counterculture of the '60s and '70s.

  • A long string of modifiers in advance of a noun is frustrating and confusing to listeners; they want to know--right off--what the speaker is talking about.

  • Appendix 2 contains Changed Spellings and Corrupted Word Forms; although the information given here is accurate as far as I could tell, it is confusing to have some words listed under their original spelling (studding sail, treenail) and others in their corrupted form (gunnel, bosun) —and what happened to trunnel?

  • American cowboys, perhaps confusing the Spanish dale with English dally, began to understand, maybe at the cost of an eye or two, and in their own lingo called the rawhide lariats dally ropes . That, at least, was the etymology current in Southern Arizona, which was plausible enough to convince me.


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