How to Use flummox in a Sentence

flummox

verb
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  • The woman, Megha Gavaskar, is flummoxed by the question.
    — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Shinnecock Hills’ small greens, dense rough and all that wind have flummoxed the world’s best all day.
    — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 14 June 2018
  • This will kill,’ and then the audience is just flummoxed.
    — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2019
  • The old form is in such rare use now as to have left your entire circle flummoxed.
    — Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2023
  • At the time, the move flummoxed some city and county lawmakers.
    — Joshua Fechter, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Many of the justices seemed flummoxed by the government’s stance.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 10 Dec. 2019
  • San Diego’s Eric Lauer became the latest lefty to flummox the Phillies.
    — Scott Lauber, https://www.inquirer.com, 4 June 2019
  • Having been around him his whole life, there’s not a whole lot that flummoxes him.
    — cleveland, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Souza hit the ball high enough to interact with the catwalk and Brugman was flummoxed.
    — John Hickey, The Mercury News, 10 June 2017
  • Even the initial users of Facebook were flummoxed by the feature, but that didn’t stop them from using it.
    — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Mills remains as flummoxed as anyone about the state of his errant jumper.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Jan. 2018
  • As a man flummoxed by circumstance and the rifts in his own marriage, Romano is deeply touching in the role.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 June 2017
  • The Mariners, meanwhile, were flummoxed by Rogers through three innings, getting just one hit.
    — Scott Hanson, The Seattle Times, 3 Sep. 2018
  • Thus, both the cameras and the announcers in the booth were flummoxed by upsets in the men and women's 200-meter finals.
    — Ken Goe, OregonLive.com, 27 June 2017
  • But the luge has long flummoxed U.S. athletes as well as U.S. audiences.
    — Luke Darby, GQ, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Immune cells, flummoxed by the bloody disguise, largely failed to capture and kill the would-be invaders.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 3 Dec. 2019
  • The trend has flummoxed BART’s management and caused the rail system’s approval ratings to tank.
    — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 26 Sep. 2019
  • To some extent, the Yankees could thank their fans for flummoxing the Astros during three games in New York this week.
    — Brian Costa, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The varied game of Andreescu flummoxed the power-hitting Osaka in the first set, as the 19-year-old built a 5-1 lead.
    — Ravi Ubha, CNN, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Grammarly could help me spell even the words that regularly flummoxed MS Word and Google.
    — Lisa Wood Shapiro, WIRED, 18 June 2018
  • His fastball sat 95-97 miles per hour, and both his changeup and slider dove out of the zone in ways that flummoxed his opponents.
    — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2023
  • She wasn’t flummoxed by abrupt changes in circumstance and locale.
    — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Three plays later, on third-and-long, Unitas flummoxed the defense, bringing four wide receivers to the line of scrimmage.
    — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Investors were flummoxed by the deal’s potential price tag.
    — Alexander Osipovich, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2020
  • Those traps the Cavs' used against Curry to flummox him in Game 4 weren't nearly as effective on Monday night.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland.com, 13 June 2017
  • But in that Thursday night game, Ohtani appeared flummoxed for perhaps the first time in his proper big-league career.
    — Ted Berg, For The Win, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Jokic will shred the double teams and digs that flummoxed Embiid.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
  • The Vikings have a first-time head coach in Dennis Gates, and the U wasn’t flummoxed by the unknowns that come with an inconclusive scouting report.
    — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 5 Nov. 2019
  • At one point in the not-too-distant past, winter’s lack of birds completely flummoxed some of history’s greatest thinkers.
    — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Even the federal judge who will preside over the trial said he was flummoxed by Mr. Hwang’s strategy of simply buying more and more shares.
    — Matthew Goldstein, New York Times, 8 May 2024

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