CONFOUND in a Sentence
Learn CONFOUND from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
70 example sentences for CONFOUND, such as:
1. You are a confounded nuisance.
2. You must not confound my meaning.
3. They must not be confounded together.
4. She was mortified, shocked, confounded.
5. I always confounded him with his twin brother.
2. You must not confound my meaning.
3. They must not be confounded together.
4. She was mortified, shocked, confounded.
5. I always confounded him with his twin brother.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of CONFOUND
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confound
v. be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
v. mistake one thing for another
Classic Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
1 My parents forced me at the age of fifteen to put on this detestable habit, to increase the fortune of a cursed elder brother, whom God confound.
2 With the constellations of space they confound the stars of the abyss which are made in the soft mire of the puddle by the feet of ducks.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
3 To replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food.
4 You must not confound my meaning.
5 Only," said I, "that you would not confound them with the others.
6 No, no, my dear fellow, do not confound our plans.
7 Ill deeds do not prosper, and the weak confound the strong.
8 You'll only lose your own temper, and utterly confound Dinah.
9 It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
10 Yes, confound it, gentlemen, I admit I should very much like to be a general.
11 She was mortified, shocked, confounded.
12 The rush of the daylight quite confounded me, and made me feel as if I had been in the candlelight of the strange room many hours.
13 She could not get over my appearance, and was in the last degree confounded.
14 His sufferings were hailed with the greatest joy by a knot of spectators, and I felt utterly confounded.
15 They must not be confounded together.
Example Sentence:
1 I developed an elaborate color scheme to help us pluck just the right card at that special moment to confound the opposing pair of debaters.
2 The author deliberately breaks the narrative continuity in order to confound the reader's expectations.
3 United's new striker confounded the critics with his third goal in as many games.
4 His amazing recovery confounded the medical specialists.
5 You are a confounded nuisance.
6 An elderly man from Hull has confounded doctors by recovering after he was officially declared dead.
7 Her husband's cruelty amazed and confounded her.
8 I always confounded him with his twin brother.
9 After more than two weeks of strong share-price gains that an analyst deemed "confounding," Twitter stock seemed to reach a correction stage Friday, with shares plunging 13 percent.
10 The close correlation between the data obtained from these two sources suggests that recall error is unlikely to be a confounding factor.