confusion

Definition:
1. Disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably.
2. A mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior.
3. A feeling of embarrassment that leaves you confused.

Use 'confusion' in a sentence:

• 1. There's confusion and resentment, and it's almost never expressed out in the open. Take this office, for example.
• 2. The rebel leader appears to have escaped in the confusion.
• 3. While careful planning for the afterlife may lie buried underground in Cairo, it is noise and confusion on the streets.
• 4. They believe this confusion is responsible for a rash of suicides this spring.
• 5. Such lists are as likely to create new confusion as they are to solve old problems.
• 6. In their confusion, they feared that a real train was about to crush them.
• 7. To avoid confusion, please write the children's names clearly on all their school clothes.
• 8. His people had fallen further and further into a quagmire of confusion.
• 9. There was confusion when a man fired shots.
• 10. His mind was a haze of fear and confusion.
• 11. Omissions in my recent article must have caused confusion.
• 12. The laws led to confusion, muddle and years of delay.
• 13. This served to hide the confusion and imprecision in their thinking.
• 14. He was arrested in the confusion which followed.
• 15. The name was changed to avoid confusion with another firm.
• 16. We always left his office in a state of confusion.
• 17. In the confusion some struck at their own side.
• 18. The meeting adjourned in confusion.
• 19. The wish to impose order upon confusion is a kind of intellectual instinct.
• 20. Only by writing things down could I bring some sort of order to the confusion.
• 21. Peace is the foundation of happiness, for where there is anxiety, tension and confusion, joy cannot exist.
• 22. Mewing and running, they caused a frightful confusion.
• 23. But in real situations the number and words are often accompanied by gestures to help resolve any confusion.
• 24. In all the confusion, there's a serious risk that the main issues will be forgotten.
• 25. As the story unfolded throughout the past week, I experienced the gamut of emotions: shock, anger, sadness, disgust, confusion.
• 26. The author believes that relaxing the rule of punctuality in factories would lead to great confusion.
• 27. There's still confusion about the number of casualties.
• 28. After they walk a few more yards, they experience a sudden gust of wind and confusion.
• 29. During the confusion and bewilderment of the second day Mary hid herself in the nursery and was forgotten by everyone.
• 30. We were thrown into confusion by the news.
• 31. A look of utter confusion swept across his handsome face.
• 32. Teddy turned to Mona with a look of mild confusion.
• 33. Early cinema audiences often experienced the same confusion.
• 34. The announcement only succeeded in creating confusion.
• 35. People of my generation who lived through World War II have vivid memories of confusion and incompetence.
• 36. This report was published in good faith but we regret any confusion which may have been caused.
• 37. Fighting had broken out and all was chaos and confusion.
• 38. Mandy's predominant emotion was confusion.
• 39. Confusion reigned about how the debate would end.
• 40. There followed a long period of confusion and muddle.
• 41. One of the main findings of the survey was the confusion about the facilities already in place.
• 42. There is some confusion about what the correct procedure should be.
• 43. When she opened the door she was greeted by a scene of utter confusion.
• 44. Her speech sliced through all the confusion surrounding the situation.
• 45. I think there's a deliberate confusion here about these lines because their precise historical significance isn't what's most significant.
• 46. Instead, the session has sowed confusion.
• 47. The climate of political confusion has only reinforced the country's economic decline.
• 48. I tried to clear the confusion that was fogging my brain.