Example sentences for: confusion

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

  • A suggested solution to the semantic confusion would be to sharpen the distinction between paddleball and racquetball . These games could be defined simply as ` handball played with a paddle,' the only difference being that paddleball employs a perforated wooden racquet and a large spongy ball, while racquetball , which is rapidly pushing both handball and paddleball into obscurity, employs a small strung racquet and a lively rubber ball.

  • Thus Barlow's belief that "property law of all sorts" has always "found definition" on the "physical plane" signals a distressing confusion on his part.

  • In his essay “The Awful German Language,” Mark Twain spoofs the confusion engendered by German gender by translating from a conversation in a German Sunday school book:

  • The confusion shows that telecommuting has changed the workplace so that traditional rules and regulations may no longer apply--or perhaps no one's sure how to apply them.

  • The evidence on alcohol and health is now more than 20 years old--so why the confusion?


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