How To Use Puzzle out In A Sentence
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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
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No sign and he couldn't puzzle out where it could have gone.
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The teacher left the children to puzzle out the answer to the problem themselves.
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He tried to puzzle out, from what Blondel had told him, how time worked.
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Critics and the public puzzle out the layers of meaning in his photos.
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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
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He was trying to puzzle out why he had been brought to the house.
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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
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This is the hardest poem to puzzle out, but the most rewarding.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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The client would puzzle out an explanation later, if he got informed by letter of his right to exercise the warrants.
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One day, I was riding with three friends in a car, heading for a forgotten destination in Tijuana, still trying to puzzle out the blankety-blank subjunctive while listening to their mile-a-minute Spanish conversation.
If you could change Spanish...
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I'm still trying to puzzle out how the Slayer's ersatz sister figures into everything.
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Ms. Lepore was trying to puzzle out why little bouclé jackets - and in particular a tweed plaid version with a boxy shape and frayed edges, a knockoff of a Chanel original - should be the surprise hit of the season…
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One day, I was riding with three friends in a car, heading for a forgotten destination in Tijuana, still trying to puzzle out the blankety-blank subjunctive while listening to their mile-a-minute Spanish conversation.
If you could change Spanish...
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Kids who have never been in an art museum before are riveted by the experience, lingering far longer than adults as they puzzle out the meanings of a single work.
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While the human behind the attacks intervenes to puzzle out what's wrong, the controller is alerting the IT department, and tracking down the attacker's location.
Aruba strengthens Wi-Fi network software
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Clearly, something is terribly wrong in the Hobbey household, but neither Shardlake nor the reader can puzzle out what evil abides there, even after the half-mad mistress of the house cries out, You fool!
Chasing justice in Henry VIII's England
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This is the hardest poem to puzzle out, but the most rewarding.
Times, Sunday Times