How to Use confound in a Sentence

confound

verb

• The success of the show confounded critics.
• The school's team confounded all predictions and won the game.
• The strategy confounded our opponents.
• The murder case has confounded investigators.
• The podcast delves into the confounding details of the killing.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 24 Aug. 2023
• The second quarter was more of the same, as the Parkville zones and traps continued to confound Lansdowne.
  — Mike Frainie, Baltimore Sun, 6 Jan. 2024
• Yet, his seeming reluctance to run the ball at times can confound.
  — Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 23 Nov. 2022
• Alana shed disturbing light on the way love has come to confound the erotic bond of a couple who met on a fetish app.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2022
• The coronavirus will adapt and confound efforts to contain it.
  — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 15 Dec. 2021
• But the fentanyl challenge is confounding, and states are searching for the best path forward.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2024
• Perhaps the most confounding part of the Orioles’ season thus far has been the club’s poor outfield defense.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 14 Apr. 2023
• Phillips' challenge to the head of his party has confounded some colleagues and caused rifts with fellow Democrats.
  — Azi Paybarah The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 25 Nov. 2023
• At times, Ohtani seemed confounded by that idea Friday.
  — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2023
• God uses the broken and lowly to confound the strong and powerful.
  — Cameron Smith | [e-mail], al, 13 Apr. 2022
• And then there are the ballot questions, some of which have continued to confound voters right up to today.
  — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Nov. 2022
• Regrettably, lazy jokes, one too many full-frontals and wearying hour-long episodes make for a confounding show.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
• For my analysis of this student and teacher confounding facet, see my coverage at the link here and the link here.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• Our geese are confounded, and circle overhead with the vultures.
  — Emma Brewer, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2023
• As the contest continued, some judges were confounded with the entries.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 27 Aug. 2023
• Loch Raven used a series of traps and half-court defenses to confound the Perry Hall offense.
  — Mike Frainie, Baltimore Sun, 16 Feb. 2024
• Baseball is complex enough to confound its most learned devotees.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Apr. 2022
• But if there were high rates before the disaster, that’s a confounding factor.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2023
• His spot at the top of the current government is his third, and is testament to his ability to confound rivals.
  — Jan Bratanic, Bloomberg.com, 24 Apr. 2022
• One step backward for every three steps forward can confound you.
  — Chris Carosa, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• Much of it takes place on the ocean floor, in a confounding murk; the one bright patch is the opening scene, which is set sixty-five million years ago, around the time of Henry Kissinger’s tenth birthday.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2023
• For much of the public, the country’s current state of affairs is a confounding contrast to its former status as the heart of the Portuguese Empire.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2024
• For me, figuring out the U.S. health system continues to confound me.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Nov. 2022
• Chief among them is the case of tipping—a dilemma that has always confounded Americans.
  — Karla Alindahao, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• The final two acts served as something like Madonna’s statements of intent — to provoke, to enrich, to confound.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2023
• Therefore, there could be factors that confound any results.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024