Example sentences for: confusion

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

  • This road-cum-boxing movie starring Woody Harrelson and Antonio Banderas is both trite and strange: On one hand it "knocks the Rocky tradition on its ear by giving us two boxers to root for in the same match" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ), but despite this departure from convention, it manages to include "an assembly of ancient and familiar prizefight clichés" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Director Ron Shelton ( Bull Durham ) is a veteran of successful sports movies, but this one lacks the "off-the-wall larkiness" of his previous efforts (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). The film culminates in a gruesome fight between the two stars that leaves several critics bemoaning the confusion over whom to root for; others contend that the scene's emotional conflict works in its favor.

  • A writer finds head-spinning confusion at the National Archives, where librarians are straining to keep up with the antiquatedness of old technologies and the information sprawl caused by new ones.

  • Lawyers are mad folk in general, but their madness crescendos, according to Professor Mellinkoff, in their “consuming passion for precedent .’ Mesmerized by the “ritual phrase’ stare decisis , they delve into that shelf-devouring monster of confusion known as Words and Phrases and come forth with “language that the profession accepts as precedent,’ thus investing such terms as accident and proximate cause with a false precision.

  • Second, confusion and fear about SP were common in the district.

  • You see the confusion when biological parents invoke "blood ties" to reclaim a child from adoptive parents.


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