How to Use addle in a Sentence

addle

verb

• Their brains were addled with fear.
• It's a dangerous poison that's strong enough to addle the brain.
• And now the web-addled among us can pay to have the internet taken away from us, in some form of retreat.
  — Carrie Battan, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 July 2018
• Writer’s block was extreme, and the alcohol had addled his mind.
  — Vulture, 31 Jan. 2024
• Words can addle, the propagandist knows, even in their absence.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2025
• This drug-addled, free-spirited nomad can't come up with a name for her unplanned baby.
  — Amy Shearn, Redbook, 2 Apr. 2013
• Addled by calmer markets, Flow’s first-quarter profit slumped.
  — Annie Massa, Bloomberg.com, 19 June 2017
• Two laps are enough to addle your brain and unbalance your equilibrium.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2023
• Tomas Berdych, addled by a wrist injury, fell to Diego Schwartzman.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 3 Sep. 2017
• Chicken on a Raft hoards your attention without brain-addling tricks.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 1 Nov. 2019
• As for Claire Denis, anybody new to her methods will be addled by her breaking and stretching of the rules.
  — Michelle McNamara, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2018
• One is addled by paranoia and extremism, the other knows only heartless corporate speak.
  — Jake Coyle, Boston Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
• Mike sought escape through a mind-addling use of Dust-Off, cans of compressed air used to clear debris from computer keyboards.
  — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2017
• Our public servants should do what’s needed to bring the park into environmental balance and try to keep it that way by addling goose eggs every year.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 10 July 2019
• Members of a generation that’s been addled by the internet’s intrusions since birth, many of them seem much less bullish about chasing mass appeal.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2025
• Some intricacies lay beyond me—a hazy blur of literature about floating exchange rates and reserve currencies addled my brain.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2019
• Visiting Cindy Sherman's New York apartment has a brain-addling effect.
  — Cindy Sherman, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Feb. 2016
• Sharif, now an old man (played by Mohammad Bakri), lives with them, his memory addled yet returning obsessively to the loss of his homeland.
  — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2026
• Erich von Stroheim stars in this eerie low-budget thriller, as a vaudeville marksman whose aim is addled by lust for his young assistant (Mary Beth Hughes).
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2020
• Amateurs are flooding the internet; piracy has addled the once-dominant studios; production has atomized and scattered.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 5 May 2018
• That decision, even if only for exploratory purposes, should be left to a Congress whose majority isn’t addled by either devotion to Trump or fear of him.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2026
• An environment addled by politics isn’t one most CEOs relish, Griffin, 57, told the Wall Street Journal’s Invest Live conference yesterday.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2026