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.
• Things like the sun, as well as the dark, seem to confound it.
  — Kevin T. Dugan, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2021
• This is both something to confound us and a pretty big clue.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
• There are two things going on that could be kind of confounding.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2017
• But that’s why these races confound and excite us year after year.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 5 Sep. 2020
• But my plan to get to Knoxville is confounded by my plodding pace.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 7 Aug. 2017
• Yet, his seeming reluctance to run the ball at times can confound.
  — Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 23 Nov. 2022
• The Pistons have done some confounding things over the years.
  — Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2018
• The left-wing is confounded why all Democrats don’t follow their lead.
  — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 19 July 2018
• Leave it to the machines, though, to help make sense of a confounding ocean kingdom.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 22 Mar. 2018
• More confounding still is what follows.
  — Natalia Winkelman, Variety, 16 June 2026
• So far, the city, like the rest of the country, has had a way of confounding them and marching on.
  — Mina Al-Oraibi, Time, 14 Apr. 2026
• What’s confounding, though, is the Bears have been unable to run the ball through two games.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2024
• The end was bizarre and confounding and controversial in ways that will sting and stick a while.
  — Vahe Gregorian, kansascity, 20 Oct. 2017
• How that driver managed to miss Lewis confounds him, James said.
  — Tonya Alanez, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Nov. 2019
• And this might confound your expectations, but the diesel is smoother than the gas engine.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2019
• 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
• The podcast delves into the confounding details of the killing.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 24 Aug. 2023
• Even if the jokes sometimes confounded people.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
• Two years later, and Sunak has confounded the sceptics.
  — Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2026
• Whether Labour can confound the polls and win an outright majority is yet to be seen.
  — Daniel Fitzpatrick, Quartz, 26 Nov. 2019
• That probably comes across a bit confounding.
  — Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2025
• Fertility fell to a record low last year, confounding efforts to shore it up.
  — Daniel Moss, Twin Cities, 12 Apr. 2026
• These, too, have been confounding to the point of nonsensical.
  — Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2026
• To confound matters, an Indy player was sent off with a red card in three of the four losses.
  — Kevin Johnston, Indianapolis Star, 6 Oct. 2019
• But the fentanyl challenge is confounding, and states are searching for the best path forward.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2024