How To Use Baffled In A Sentence

To many baffled voters he must seem indestructible. Times, Sunday Times
The police were baffled, and Sherlock Holmes was called in to investigate.
He is indulgent about this, but plainly baffled.
Farmers are baffled about how to remedy natural animal behaviour and say the tax could make farming uneconomical.
Half admit to having overcooked the meat while two fifths felt baffled trying to work out cooking times. Times, Sunday Times

When so much painstaking medical research has been done, it may seem astounding to most of us that the doctors are still baffled by the cause. Coping With Sudden Hair Loss
Investigators seemed baffled by the theft, as guards patrol the premises at night and there is tight security inside, including infrared systems and cameras.
Mr. Saunders went from looking puzzled to looking baffled. CHARMED LIFE
The mysterious stranger took his departure; Laura Lipping distinctly saw a snarl of baffled rage reveal itself behind his heavy moustache and upturned astrachan collar. Literature
I am baffled as to why a university publisher produced this book. Times, Sunday Times
Yet they are completely baffled as to how they did it. Times, Sunday Times
Back in the day, those comfortable with his modern classical accomplishments were baffled by his acetates of loopy leftfield disco.
Read in studio Police say they're baffled by the mysterious disappearance of a twenty nine year old farmer.
Those without a clue about the basis for the movie will simply be baffled as to why it was made, and why the story had to be told in such a scattershot fashion.
After seeing his statement, we remain baffled — nowhere does he explain how retreating from Iraq makes America safer. Think Progress » White House Flip-Flops on Murtha
He just might... "He looked baffled, as if trying to communicate in a foreign language. AN OLDER WOMAN
Police are baffled by the killing. The Sun
Read in studio Police say they're baffled by the mysterious disappearance of a twenty nine year old farmer.
When the bodies of various stiffs start disappearing from the local morgue, the police are baffled as to where they've gone.
'30 Rock' fans who missed last night's mid-season premiere might be baffled by the headline above. WATCH: Jack & Liz Attend Couple's Counseling
Police are baffled by the killing. The Sun
The belated realization that these things are no longer so leads to the embittered and baffled reaction that they ought to be so.
Viewers baffled by these moments, not to mention the orotund tones and rolled R's of theatrical elocution, will probably welcome the subtitles.
Medical teams are baffled by the youngster's condition which means he has to be fed milk through a tube.
The sound is just so much different, I get a baffled sound while he gets tons of bass.
She was completely baffled by his strange behaviour.
BATH, England—Although historians today think that he suffered from a hereditary blood disorder called porphyria, not madness, King George III's erratic behavior has always baffled and intrigued in equal measure. The Witty Madness of David Haig's George III Is Fit for a King
So perfect was his jockeyship, so clever his management of the animal he mounted, so intimately acquainted was he with every cross-road in the neighborhood of the metropolis -- a book of which he constructed, and carried constantly about his person --, as well as with many other parts of England, particularly the counties of Chester, York, and Lancaster, that he outstripped every pursuer, and baffled all attempts at capture. Rookwood
In May, 1593, sick, and 'tumbled down the hill by every practice,' he would go on exclaiming against the administrative blunders which had let England be baffled and 'beggared' by a nation without fortifications, and, for long, without effective arms. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography
I am always baffled as to why it is considered blasphemous. Times, Sunday Times
About eleven a saloon car of baffled tourists - French registration - whined miserably through. THE TARTAN RINGERS
Having baffled them all, she laughed scornfully, flung deceit to the winds, then hurried straight to the "fastness," and there uttered the tribal call. Flowing Gold
About this period a "desperado" of world-wide fame named Harry Tracy was raising a siege of terror in the State of Oregon, having committed over a dozen murders, and successfully baffled the police. From Paris to New York by Land
In a week or three, I'll look back on what I've been writing recently and I'll either cringe with embarrassment or just be totally baffled by what was going on in my head.
They are offered without the baffle but I prefer the baffled sound.
She shook her head, baffled that something happening in France could have the effect of taking away her wages. Burning Bright
He offers a handclasp that Fiedler can scarcely feel: ‘I stood there baffled, a little ashamed of how I had braced myself involuntarily for a bone-crushing grip, how I must have yearned for some wordless preliminary test of strength.’
It was in that desperate and curious limbo known as the "exit concourse," where baffled creatures wait to meet others arriving on trains and maledict the architect who so planned matters that the passengers arrive on two sides at once, so that one stands grievously in the middle slewing his eyes to one side and another in a kind of vertigo, attempting to con both exits. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
Otherwise, put on a wise face and disguise your baffled ignorance. Times, Sunday Times
That other honour to our profession, Roker, is well versed in chicane, and knows more of the law, or rather of its abuse, than an honest man would wish to know; but Fisherton is so ignorant that, while his lavish expences continually reduce him to necessities that drive him into bold attempts at robbery, his skill in managing them is so inferior that he is almost always baffled, and has been more than once exposed. ' The Old Manor House
In a sartorial choice that has baffled and dismayed people ever since, upper-class Parisians adopted the mercenaries 'knotted scarf, which they called a "cravat" - a mispronunciation of the word "Croat" probably caused by a restricted larynx. Pipes Output
The murder has baffled police, who still have no motive and no suspect for the shooting.
They will be totally baffled and will need a lawyer to know what it means.
The mysterious phenomenon of long marriage baffled him.
The murmurs would die away, and then rise again, and from time to time we knew that a baffled bicycler was pulling at our door, or vainly bumping against it. Seven English Cities
Officials say they're baffled about the cause of the gas explosion.
Long, however, before mesmerism was heard of, medical history attests examples in which patients who baffled the skill of the ablest physicians have fixed their fancies on some remedy that physicians would call inoperative for good or for harm, and have recovered by the remedies thus singularly self-suggested. A Strange Story — Complete
Bella is even further baffled as her friend leaned in mumbling under her breath about something being “ridiculous” and purposefully smelled her shoulder a few times. Twilight Lexicon » Chapter Seventeen – Visitor
Not denying the word existed beforehand, but Google and you find even the BBC goes with the Popeye connection, and that the term baffled the BBC execs: Their unique comedy style was first heard on the airwaves on 28 May 1951 on the programme Crazy People featuring The Goons. Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #156 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
Forestry officials were baffled yesterday by reports that an employee battered his wife to death and killed himself over fears they would lose their tied cottage.
As machine learning steadily replaces human judgment, we shall find ourselves as baffled by events as our premodern forefathers were. Times, Sunday Times
The reac - tion to the scholarly Sismondi was fairly mild, to the foreign Schlegel violent, and to Madame de Staël it was mixed and frequently baffled. ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE
But many families will still be baffled by the sheer complexity of the care system. Times, Sunday Times
But, throw some big numbers at us and we are left baffled, bewildered or just bored. Times, Sunday Times
Even in his late seventies, Louis is still haranguing his son about his attitude towards Israel, and Allen is responding with the same mixture of would-be facts and baffled fury.
The mystery that baffled him most was Jos's sudden appearance at the lakeside.
The haka has baffled rugby sides for years. Times, Sunday Times
Yet they are completely baffled as to how they did it. Times, Sunday Times
It took twenty years before Cambridge University actually gave him a lectureship, a fact that left Leavis baffled and embittered rather than regretting the disputes he had scattered in his wake and that had cost him a number of teaching jobs. The Grumpy Critic « Tales from the Reading Room
In a jerk the goat in tiger skin shivered with fear. Even the hesitant jackal which had stopped its steps was baffled.
Government eavesdroppers at Yorkshire's own GCHQ listening station were baffled when they began picking up high-pitched squeaks from the base's forest of aerial masts.
Information from the Galileo space probe about Jupiter's atmosphere has left theorists baffled.
Otherwise, put on a wise face and disguise your baffled ignorance. Times, Sunday Times
The research solves an astrophysical puzzle that has baffled scientists for over 120 years since the spicules were first discovered.
A Basingstoke man was baffled when he found a 100-year-old set of local election results in copperplate pencil handwriting on his wall.
Police are baffled by the sudden appearance of a portable lavatory in the middle of a busy street. Times, Sunday Times
The engines are humming my lullaby and their baffled sound comforts me.
The only people who would be baffled by this question are those prone to overanalysis, which is to say, bloggy types. Matthew Yglesias » Off The Record
What if a poor fat squinny rogue, a low-born fellow even as I am, whom you had baffled and made a laughing-stock, had come to me in my loneliness and sworn before God that if you honorable gentlemen would not keep your words, he the clown would? Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth
MPs on a rarely convened Joint select hearing of the business and Scottish affairs committees were baffled. Times, Sunday Times
I continue to be baffled by the fact that the US networks keep taking absolutely brilliant television programming from BBC America and turning it into slop.
But next morning the dad of three was baffled when his chemo was suddenly cancelled. The Sun
Baffled or humbled by the land, we are disinclined to be boastful.
LAWYER reportedly sent by Negros Occidental Rep. Jules Ledesma, husband of Assunta de Rossi, has baffled cops for coordinating with the QCPD to "check on the condition" of two video containing footages of the alleged "rubout" committed by its anti-carnapping WN.com - Articles related to A Wake-up Call in Beijing for Delhi
The police were baffled, and Sherlock Holmes was called in to investigate.
The mysterious phenomenon of long marriage baffled him.
But the ardent and active spirit of Lady Penelope, still athirst after novelty, though baffled in her two first projects, brought forward a third, in which she was more successful. Saint Ronan's Well
Mick stopped the car opposite two other vehicles parked at the curb in front of the blindingly bright facade and turned to look at her, his expression baffled and half angry. Sudden Rain
Officials say they're baffled about the cause of the gas explosion.
So I'm genuinely baffled to see that the fashion for small, high-maintenance lap dogs persists - and not just in America.
As a matter of fact, he was completely baffled on how to rout a person that wields luck.
For centuries, the meaning of the mysterious and mystical Egyptian hieroglyphs baffled the greatest minds in the world.
This triggered an undisciplined period by Hertford who were baffled and incensed by the referee's decisions.
It baffled me that he rejected my offer.
He made sure it would be a draw last Sunday when he baffled everyone by not giving a blatant free to Cork in the last minute.
I was completely baffled in my search for hidden treasure.
They buy a thing that is plainly too big for a pocket and are bewildered, baffled, betrayed and vengeful when the pocket fights back. Times, Sunday Times
One variation of the baffled sound suppressor is known as the coaxial suppressor.
One of the exam questions baffled me completely.
His decision to join the police had baffled people, baffled himself. THE ONLY GAME
You get the distinct impression that the cops are as baffled by the intractability of it all as everyone else.
There is the usual blue-sky stuff, such as phone conferencing and video calls, which, in my view, are never going to appeal to the baffled masses among us, for two good reasons.
Some of my writing-group partners are no doubt baffled by my apparent love for the octothorpe. Archive 2008-05-01
Fire officers are baffled as to the cause of the blaze, but believe the fire may have started either in the sitting room or an upstairs bedroom.
When parvovirus appeared in the late 1970s Max said vets were initially baffled.
To many baffled voters he must seem indestructible. Times, Sunday Times
He looked so baffled and afraid that she knew immediately that he was used to dealing with fledglings and revenants.
Police are baffled but some suggest a racial motivation. The Sun
I confess it's got me baffled.
Despite this being my fifth book launch, I find myself as elated and baffled and nervous and delighted and just plain punchy about the idea that something I wrote is hitting shelves all over the country today as ever. 2010 May at SF Novelists
He spoke much of the wonderful works of the Creator -- of the heavenly bodies whose movements baffled his powers of comprehension, as he sat and "mused" upon them; and his countenance brightened with a sort of ecstacy, as he was told that he might very soon know more about these wonders of Creation, than could be conceived of by us. Memoir of Quamino Buccau, a Pious Methodist
They buy a thing that is plainly too big for a pocket and are bewildered, baffled, betrayed and vengeful when the pocket fights back. Times, Sunday Times
I've been a frosh leader for the last two years, and I am constantly baffled by how awesome my fellow leaders are.
When the credits started rolling I actually felt baffled for a moment, wondering if somehow I'd accidentally hit the fast forward button at some point during the film.
Boehme acquired a vocabulary of alchemistical terms which he was always labouring to turn to spiritual meaning, but which always baffled him. Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries
I was completely baffled in my search for hidden treasure.
Now baffled docs fear her life is at risk because of a lack of protein, vitamins and minerals. The Sun
This moment of candor is consistent with what Paul Davies wrote in his book, The 5th Miracle: "Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled. 2007 June - Telic Thoughts
They then declare themselves completely baffled as to why their combined weight is approaching 35 stone. Times, Sunday Times
Police are baffled but some suggest a racial motivation. The Sun
He looks baffled, perhaps slightly flattered. Times, Sunday Times
King was proud of his success but slightly baffled. Times, Sunday Times
The disappearance of nearly a mile of steeply shelving shingle has baffled experts. Times, Sunday Times
Yet rather than quell the criticism, his comments left voters baffled. Times, Sunday Times
For no apparent reason, the Dublin girl gradually lost her speech, power and co-ordination in front of her baffled and heartbroken family over the next 18 months.
Somehow, the only thing that's penetrated is that my mother said, "Well, at least you'll be getting a nice chunk of change," which baffled me; I told Tommy, don't save for me. When I Have Strange Dreams, I Have Strange Dreams
the children's faces clearly expressed the frustration of the baffled
Now baffled, she walked back towards the table and sat, resuming her mending without another word to him.
Scientists are also baffled by the fact that this particular type of basaltic lava is only known to exist in Iceland. 365 tomorrows » featured writer : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
King was proud of his success but slightly baffled. Times, Sunday Times
I got a great big chunk of honey in the comb and was baffled as to how to attack it. Times, Sunday Times
Officials say they're baffled about the cause of the gas explosion.
They were baffled when I refused to change quoted words to make them more suspenseful, euphonious or, with the puritanism of Americans, less coarse.
Mr. Saunders went from looking puzzled to looking baffled. CHARMED LIFE
Watson, I am accustomed to being baffled by complexity.
The move has already baffled some consumers, with reader comments on the website of the French newspaper Le Figaro joking that "Louis Vuitton will sell yogurt with the LV logo!" and "What luck—I was looking for a bag to carry my four bifidus yogurts to work. Little-Known Yogurt Boss Picked to Run Louis Vuitton
Bagri predicts that baffled investors and dealers will stop trading.
NHS staff were baffled by the unexplained rise, which has been replicated at similar teaching hospitals across London.
I was really hypercritical and baffled about not knowing that to do with the I way I sounded.
His disappearance has baffled police and residents of the Channel island. Times, Sunday Times
With a sleek aluminium front panel, a mirrored display, metal-baffled speakers and high-quality drivers, the system oozes quality.
I am baffled at the ridiculous insane media coverage.
We were baffled by a waterfowl just like this one back in September.
He just might... "He looked baffled, as if trying to communicate in a foreign language. AN OLDER WOMAN
We've also had concerned correspondents in France baffled over the identity of our mystery poet.
Still he said nothing, merely shook his head, half angry, half baffled. A TIME OF WAR
Yet they are completely baffled as to how they did it. Times, Sunday Times
She was genuinely baffled when I asked if she felt uncomfortable in the company livery. Times, Sunday Times
Solicitors recognise that many buyers are baffled by a lack of clear and comprehensive information and guides to talk them through the procedure.
Today's young clubbers would've been baffled. Times, Sunday Times
Environment ministers reeling from defeat over the fate of the Forestry Commission caved in, but were then baffled at the fury of green organisations outraged to see the end of 50 years of countryside guardianship. The maths of coalition has opened the door to lobbyists | Simon Jenkins
Now baffled docs fear her life is at risk because of a lack of protein, vitamins and minerals. The Sun
She is then baffled because he is confused by other Big Words.
IT'S the top-secret code which has baffled and bewildered England managers for decades. The Sun
His anger against her found vent in coarse railing at her paramour, whose name and voice and features offended his baffled pride: a priested peasant, with a brother a policeman in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
And then there's an opportunistic foreign policy that equates despots with democrats and which has baffled the most seasoned of diplomats.
We've also had concerned correspondents in France baffled over the identity of our mystery poet.
When so much painstaking medical research has been done, it may seem astounding to most of us that the doctors are still baffled by the cause. Coping With Sudden Hair Loss
The producers, and Christina, remain baffled by the whole thing. Christina Applegate Smoking (Photos)
It was an amazing turnabout that must have left Tramore baffled and bewildered as to how they left this game behind them.
Then," I continued, "perhaps you have found a prince of the church, pale as alabaster, sitting in his red robe, who put together the indicatory evidence of the crime that baffled you with such uncanny acumen that you stood aghast at his perspicacity? The Sleuth of St. James's Square
About eleven a saloon car of baffled tourists - French registration - whined miserably through. THE TARTAN RINGERS
his life was drawing to a close in baffled zeal and unrelaxed strain
He just might... "He looked baffled, as if trying to communicate in a foreign language. AN OLDER WOMAN
I'm just baffled by this "unvetted" business, frankly. Obama Campaign Memo: He's The Guy Who Can Win Indys And Beat McCain
When her proud pretensions are baffled, and her vain towering hopes of an absolute and universal dominion brought to nought, and she appears not to have been so strong and considerable as she would have been thought to be, then to see the nakedness of the land do they come, and it appears ridiculous. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
With sleepy grunts the ursine fellows sat up, scratching themselves and looking round baffled. A TIME OF WAR
Farrow said she was baffled and frustrated by what she called the indifference of Britons to Darfur, the region of Sudan where 200,000 people have died and 2.5 million been forced from their homes in four years of fighting between the Sudanese government and local rebels. ANC Daily News Briefing
In this station the Armenians again exercised his courage and exposed his negligence; and the same rebel, who baffled all his operations, was unhorsed, and almost slain by the vigor of his lance. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Drivers are baffled by the growing array of dashboard warning lights, according to a survey. Times, Sunday Times
Not long since, a slavocrat, writing on this subject, said, apologetically, "we frankly admit that slavery is a monstrous evil; but what are we to do with an institution which has baffled the wisdom of our greatest statesmen? The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It
Her sweet tone was drenched in sarcasm, and although thoroughly baffled, she sensed a definite history between the two.
Both players sacrificed their queens early, but Kasparov deliberated over a simple sacrifice exchange later in the match, which baffled analysts.
Mr. Saunders went from looking puzzled to looking baffled. CHARMED LIFE
But, throw some big numbers at us and we are left baffled, bewildered or just bored. Times, Sunday Times
Medics are baffled but think the jolt triggered a rare underlying condition, transverse myelitis, that swells the spinal cord. The Sun
The exhaust outlet of the unit is connected to a baffled sound chamber within which a plurality of sound absorbing elements are positioned.
The thick walls of the great hall baffled the square noises.
Apparently scientists are baffled by the endurance of one man who has the rare talent of staring at the sun for hours at a time without injuring his eyes.
Why Forbes thought that he stood a realistic chance of success this year is a question that baffled observers.
Now I know that everyone else is as baffled as me, the need for an explanation seems less pressing.
The referee remains baffled as to why his decision caused so much anger.
Morphological misfitsFirst identified 180 years ago in Sumatra by naturalist Sir Stamford Raffles, rafflesia has baffled botanists trying to pinpoint its close relatives. Archive 2007-01-01
With men this is impossible: the wisdom of man would soon be nonplussed in contriving, and the power of man baffled in effecting, the salvation of a soul. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
These are great examples of modern slang dreamed up in the playground as a new means of confusing already baffled parents.
The movie is still impressive, even if contemporary viewers may be baffled by the abrupt shifts between styles, time periods and storylines.
The entire city police force is baffled, but J. Preston the super sleuth solves mystery.
By turns stylised, enigmatic and innovative, it either intrigued cinemagoers or baffled them. Times, Sunday Times
His most ambitious music was abominated by conservative critics and also baffled concert audiences.
Why it was never collected with **that** multi-title extravaganza has always baffled me. Help me buy my comics this week! | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
Residents yesterday professed themselves baffled yesterday by the resettlement plan. Times, Sunday Times
For the reflected field between the barriers, a barrier is assumed to act as a baffled sound source.
A Chinese astronomer from the University of St Andrews has fine-tuned Einstein's groundbreaking theory of gravity, creating a 'simple' theory which could solve a dark mystery that has baffled astrophysicists for three-quarters of a century. Archive 2006-02-12
Wanting the approval and affection of her teacher, she is baffled by his alternately affectionate and rebarbative behaviour.
What becomes of these ardent young spirits, the inner history of journalism in any great city might pathetically show; but the outside world knows them only in the fine frenzy of interviewing, or of recording the midnight ravages of what they call the devouring element, or of working up horrible murders or tragical accidents, or of tracking criminals who have baffled all the detectives. A Modern Instance
Until now scientists have been a little baffled by why the site of the Great Attractor could not be located. ANC Daily News Briefing
Police baffled by the murder of a North Yorkshire man have turned to national TV in the hope of tracking down the killer.
The growing phenomenon of the 'mumpreneur' would, one must therefore assume, have left him completely baffled. Times, Sunday Times
She shook her head, baffled that something happening in France could have the effect of taking away her wages. Burning Bright
I wish I could -- enlighten, that is -- but I'm still baffled as to this condescending attitude of "I can do it myself". Modestly Yours
My subject matter has inspired baffled stares at high school reunions, jokes from schoolteachers about putting their students in stun belts, and yelling sessions in elevators. Anne-Marie Cusac: Torture Is American
Police are baffled by the sudden appearance of a portable lavatory in the middle of a busy street. Times, Sunday Times
Many chief constables say they are baffled by what they see as an unjustified attack on them. Times, Sunday Times
Moira looked utterly self-possessed; John, increasingly baffled. AN OLDER WOMAN
I was baffled by the New Criticism as it was applied in my lit courses (I learned the word "Alexandrine" in order to describe its enigmatic protocols), sunk as a prospective English major by a disastrous attempt at a close reading of Spenser. Site One: A Romantic Education.
The disappearance of nearly a mile of steeply shelving shingle has baffled experts. Times, Sunday Times
Sure enough, Dorcia's fingers sported the infamous prints that had baffled so many.
He looks baffled, perhaps slightly flattered. Times, Sunday Times
The word baffled the aging establishment at the BBC, with one executive memorably demanding to know about the 'Go On Show'. Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #156 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
I was baffled by this conceptual-leaning gag at the time, but as I've learned more about contemporary art, I remain stubbornly excited about art's capacity to throw me -- albeit figuratively -- across the room, to pull me into a warm embrace, to send my mind deep into thought, or to set my nerves on edge. Annie Buckley: On Seeing: An Internet Exhibition

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