CONFUSE in a Sentence

Learn CONFUSE 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.
253 example sentences for CONFUSE, such as:
1. There was confusion in the ranks.
2. It would only confuse and weaken her.
3. I often confuse you and your brother.
4. But her eyes fell in sudden confusion.
5. People tend to confuse bad decisions with bad luck.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of CONFUSE
confuse
 v.  assemble without order or sense
 v.  make unclear, indistinct, or blurred
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I must not confuse them with experiences which will have to rest on my own observation, or my memory of them.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Besides Villona's humming would confuse anybody; the noise of the car, too.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In AFTER THE RACE
3  The relentless beating heat was beginning to confuse me and I had a bad moment there before I realized that so far his suspicions hadn't alighted on Tom.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
4  It would only confuse and weaken her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
5  And I do think you confuse the mental life with the critical activity.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
6  You confuse me," replied Athos, with his gentlemanly air; "let us talk of something else, if you please.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 5 THE KING'S MUSKETEERS AND THE CARDINAL'S GUARDS
7  To this Juturna adds a yet stronger impulse, and high in heaven shews a sign more potent than any to confuse Italian souls with delusive augury.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
8  She knew no such troublesome thoughts ever disturbed the brains under the four flaming thatches in the carriage and, as always when she felt herself different from her neighbors, an irritated confusion fell upon her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
9  There was confusion in the ranks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
10  But her eyes fell in sudden confusion.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
11  All the fiends of hell seemed screaming in her ears and her brain swirled with confusion and panic so overpowering she clung to the window sill for support.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
12  But she knew, too, looking with confusion at the friendly faces about her, that if she withheld the news of Ellen's death, the Fontaines would never forgive her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
13  Before his direct gaze her eyes fell again in real confusion.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
14  "Well, I--" and she managed a pretty confusion and a blush.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
15  Scarlett looked into his smooth unreadable face in confusion and indignation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
Example Sentence: (43 in 3 pages)
1  The special terminology developed by some authorities in the field has done more to confuse the layman than to enlighten him.
2  Mixed messages from the Iraqis have only served to confuse matters further and may have prompted an internal debate in Washington.
3  Those sneaky lawyers misrepresented what occurred, made up all sorts of implausible alternative scenarios to confuse the jurors, and in general depended on chicanery to win the case.
4  I often confuse you and your brother.
5  It was the enlightened afrancesados who were to confuse political issues by their peculiar relation to liberalism.
6  People tend to confuse bad decisions with bad luck.
7  The name was changed to avoid confusion with another firm.
8  To avoid confusion, please write the children's names clearly on all their school clothes.
9  Her unexpected arrival threw us into total confusion.
10  There was some confusion as to whether we had won or lost.
11  I tried to clear the confusion that was fogging my brain.
12  The resignation of the prime minister will cause much confusion.
13  It has sown confusion and anxiety among researchers by giving birth to the ambiguous concept of sensitive but unclassified research.
14  From every direction, people were running and shouting and falling over each other in a tumult of confusion.
15  The climate of political confusion has only reinforced the country's economic decline.