VERB
-
find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
this unpleasant situation isn't going to work itself out
Did you get my meaning?
did you solve the problem?
did you get it?
He could not work the math problem
did you get it?
Work out your problems with the boss
How To Use puzzle out In A Sentence
- For generations of adults, the simple word-series "amo, amare, amavi, amatus" used to act as a kind of madeleine, calling to mind long classroom hours spent conjugating Latin verbs (including this one, meaning "love"), then exploring Gaul in its three parts and eventually trying to puzzle out the syntax of the rugged lines that followed "Arma virumque cano," the opening phrase of Virgil's "The Aeneid. The Ne Plus Ultra of Languages
- No sign and he couldn't puzzle out where it could have gone.
- The teacher left the children to puzzle out the answer to the problem themselves.
- He tried to puzzle out, from what Blondel had told him, how time worked.
- Critics and the public puzzle out the layers of meaning in his photos.
- The key to ambiguity is to fight that urge and leave a few of the pieces of the puzzle out, or figuratively turn them 90 degrees. Food For Thought
- He was trying to puzzle out why he had been brought to the house.
- For generations of adults, the simple word-series "amo, amare, amavi, amatus" used to act as a kind of madeleine, calling to mind long classroom hours spent conjugating Latin verbs (including this one, meaning "love"), then exploring Gaul in its three parts and eventually trying to puzzle out the syntax of the rugged lines that followed "Arma virumque cano," the opening phrase of Virgil's "The Aeneid. The Ne Plus Ultra of Languages
- This is the hardest poem to puzzle out, but the most rewarding. Times, Sunday Times
- His mind flew from one wild idea to another as he tried to puzzle out the reason she was closeted in her room like that.
