How To Use Puzzled In A Sentence

I was puzzled that my doctor saw this as a cause for celebration but they are a breed apart.
Clara looked puzzled for a moment—she had forgotten that that was what they called the picnic spot on the Guadalupe. The Lonesome Dove Series
[133] The origin of the word leach (physician), which has puzzled some inquirers, is from lids or leac, a body. Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12
Puzzled is technically correct that STS uses 2 OMS to do final insert and circ burns. Mike Griffin Wants His Old Job Back - NASA Watch
But they're also – judging by the other "what is?" search terms – puzzled by sauteed shrimp "what is scampi? Google crowns royal wedding as fastest-rising UK search of 2011

And a caring, slightly puzzled expression covers Seibei's face as his senile mother constantly asks him which family he is from.
And I, who was, for my age, what Kitty called 'Bible-learned,' said thoughtfully, and with some puzzledness of mind, 'Then he's older than The Children's Book of Christmas Stories
His eye fell on the coffee table before his couch, and puzzledly, he picked up the small piece of paper on it.
Officers today said they were puzzled why car makers' badges were being stolen in Eldwick and Gilstead.
Phrenologists became equally puzzled by villains with prominent bumps of honesty and integrity.
He conferred again, and I tried to picture the other side of the screen, with the Rani, sharp-faced and thin in her silk shawl, muttering her instructions to him, and puzzled to myself what the odd persistent noise was that I could hear above the soft pipes of the hidden orchestra - a gentle, rhythmic swishing from beyond the screen, as though a huge fan were being used. Fiancée
In this case, this paper puts forward the industrial organizational policy that can help Chinese pharmaceutical industry to get rid of its innovation puzzledom.
Everyone was a bit puzzled by her sudden departure.
Looking surprised, a little boy peers at the elderly woman, who takes the puzzled gaze as a question.
Karen watched in puzzled amazement as he dropped the thing into the wastepaper basket.
Mr. Saunders went from looking puzzled to looking baffled. CHARMED LIFE
And I, who was, for my age, what Kitty called 'Bible-learned,' said thoughtfully, and with some puzzledness of mind, 'Then he's older than Snap-Dragons: A Tale of Christmas Eve; and Old Father Christmas: An Old-Fashioned Tale of the Young Days of a Grumpy Old Godfather
But you seem to have asked the question a couple of times, and I am a bit puzzled by that.
He gave them all a puzzled look but could tell they were in a serious conversation, so he didn't push it.
Wearing a plain cotton T-shirt and a long, casual skirt with sandals, Piper folded her arms, her expression puzzled. Beware What You Wish
I watch as John starts to log the vehicle's details on his computer, but am slightly puzzled when he leans over and closely inspects its wheels.
He looked down at it, more puzzled than pained, then struck her a backhanded swipe that had her stumbling back towards the door. EVERVILLE
I was puzzled about how to eat the long and large segment of pig's bone positioned in the middle of the plate in front of me with a straw stretching into it.
Wasif was laughing though, fit to burst, and the people of the teahouse were gathering around with puzzled but interested faces, peering. KARA KUSH
Within these lines she made little dots at the top and bottom of stubby perpendicular strokes, and strange interlineal hieroglyphics, and sweeping curves, all of which would have puzzled an The Place of Honeymoons
Gordon Brown's premiership is dissected, Moyles gets mad and Melvyn Bragg is left puzzled Rewind radio: The Brown Years; Chris Moyles; In Our Time
No, what puzzled us was Chuck Colson's elliptical logic and weird similes.
It'll irritate me, this will, until I've puzzled it out.
All that was needed abroad or at home was to repeat the same sentence more slowly at a puzzled auslander, if that didn't work it was polite to bellow it repeatedly while frothing at the mouth until puce. Army Rumour Service
In doing so, the court presumably would have to face the question that has puzzled the patent office for decades and philosophers for eons: What makes us human?
He scrolled back and forth through the material he'd downloaded, puzzled. THE LAST TEMPTATION
He only began his writings at the age of 52 and his ranting style of delivery, often on street corners to a puzzled audience, marked him out for a lifetime of ridicule and poverty.
The only thing that really puzzled me was the first sentence (Now that fur is back in vogue, I've been thinking about splurging on a coat this winter): If fur is back in vogue, then why are pelt prices in the dumper right now? Why Real Fur Is Greener Than Fake
Puzzled anger at the sudden uproar crossed Henry's face, but his wife spoke first in clipped tones.
I am puzzled and troubled by this in light of my previous decision.
I was a little puzzled by the rice paddies that seem to be planted in the Forest of Arden, but I loved the trees, and I loved the 1930oid costuming -- except for Rosalind's polo shirt and khakis and little porkpie hat, which made her look like a baby Ellen DeGeneres. As You Like It at BAM
He smiled at her puzzled, then stood up, helping her also to stand.
No wonder our students are puzzled by the disjunction between course readings and academic writing assignments.
Immense amounts of money were squandered, reputations were tarnished, and the consumer was left, as is so often the case, chagrined, puzzled, shortchanged, miffed.
Mathilde was puzzled by Isabelle's apparent change of heart.
But after we began to inquire after the cause of this disease, the first thing that puzzled us was to find out the reason why bulimy seizes upon those that travel in the snow. Essays and Miscellanies
The sudden fall in the value of the dollar has puzzled financial experts.
Many people are puzzled by us, and their anxious befuddlement translates into crude stereotyping or, unconsciously perhaps, a refusal to see us at all. Where are all the lesbians?
But White Fang, uncompanionable, solitary, morose, scarcely looking to right or left, redoubtable, forbidding of aspect, remote and alien, was accepted as an equal by his puzzled elders.
Jones says he was a bit puzzled by feminist critics who took the film to task for being misogynist.
The term benevolent compassion puzzled Noam Cohen, executive editor of Inside.com and a former copy editor at the New York Times. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
The student was puzzled about what to do next.
Mrs Sykes seemed slightly puzzled by this.
He would gaze amazedly out the window at a landscape he had only dared to imagine, yet he would be puzzled by the human scene in the cabin. A Laboratory in the Sky
I have been, in return, telling him the story of the Irish schoolmaster who puzzled the magistrate's bench by a petition about a small cornuted animal, meaning a kid. Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1
It was the peculiar accent that puzzled me before; it made Alice's words sound garbled, nonsensical.
The complexity of the road map puzzled me.
He had always laughed at what he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon himself. Sole Music
Calissa and Isabelle both looked puzzled at Lucy, when suddenly it clicked in Isabelle's head.
A crowd magnetised around us, men with puzzled faces. Times, Sunday Times
The men holding the hatch-cover seemed perplexed, puzzled no doubt by the briefness of the ceremony. Chapter 3
His Keatsian Choral Symphony took many years to become established, and the austere bitonality of the Fugal Concerto and the Double Concerto for two violins puzzled even his admirers.
She then returned alone into the pub, necked her drink, stared at everyone in threatening manner and left to puzzled looks all round.
The lad she followed with puzzled and griefful eyes was of a goodly presence, and never goodlier than in his uniform. Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life,
Passing drivers tooted their horns in support of the 200-strong protest, while some passers-by looked puzzled.
A Gazette article earlier this year highlighted an enigma that has long puzzled me.
You look very puzzled about something.
Puzzled by his unenthusiastic response and having nothing better to do, April changed her course and followed after him.
Doctors were puzzled because the fungus was thought to be found only in mosquitoes and other insects.
He was rewarded with the nickname "weirdo" by puzzled teammates. BBC News - Home
Police are puzzled at the motive for the attack.
He had a surprised, slightly puzzled look on his face .
What!" thought the Author, "shall the Great Secret which has puzzled so many heads -- heads in caps and heads in turbans, heads in bonnets and heads in berettas, as Heine hath it -- shall the explanation of the Without Prejudice
I was puzzled for a moment, until I felt a slight tickle along my arm.
Yes," answered the _plaisant_, apparently speaking to the jestress, whose face wore a puzzled expression. Under the Rose
Frank puzzled over the moves on the arête as well but, without the threat of crashing onto the edges below, he was less hesitant than I had been.
Sensitive to atmosphere, Jolyon soon felt the latent antagonism between the boys, and was puzzled by Holly; so he became unconsciously ironical, which is fatal to the expansiveness of youth. In Chancery
Her recipes are very bare boned, which is great for individual interpretation but not so great when you are staring at a recipe, puzzled by something. Archive 2009-09-01
Apply these words to the time of superannuating the Levites, Numbers 4, and we shall find no need of those knots and difficulties wherewith some have puzzled themselves. From the Talmud and Hebraica
Their acquisition takes time, problems arise, children become puzzled, and they have to consider possibilities and alternatives.
'When Facebook recently launched its \ "Peace on Facebook\" section, many were puzzled: Why would a site which initially catered to college freshmen have the gumption to identify itself with world peace? Jim Cashel: Can Facebook Promote World Peace?
But many people are puzzled by the term "rare earth. Rare Earth Elements Becoming Hot Commodity
But even there I think I would be puzzled by any use that wasn't both negated and predicative, which is not the case with the hardier "untoward". Waste
And independents would be puzzled by his kind and flattering praise of John McCain compare to his Obama trashing while he was running in the primaries. — jimSF Biden and Anita Hill, Revisited - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
In the light of this law, _were any one mad enough to grope_, he might come to the conclusion that the first man (or race of men) was anything but a grandee in mind, person, or estate; and that our seemingly puzzled but at last most wonder-working mother, ycleped The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
Larry puzzled over the situation: Should the banquette be held for the diva, or bequeathed to the refreshingly unassuming — and relievedly present — young actress? Ye Waverly Blog: Stood Up: Vanity Fair
I have long been puzzled by the supposed crackdown on drugs and vice that steadfastly ignored the home grown Thai problem of all pervasive corruption.
They also were puzzled by the presence in the enclosed courtyard of a new glass-walled room that seemed to be a guardhouse.
She listened with a puzzled expression on her face.
She sighed, and regretfully disentangled herself from Steve, who looked puzzled.
I puzzled for quite a long time over the sort of threshold that I thought might be most appropriate.
They are puzzled what to do next/how to react.
Graham sat down on the nearest banquette, a puzzled look on his face. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
Wherefore, as Origen had carefully compared the Greek version of the Septuagint with the Hebrew text; and as he puzzled and confounded the learned Jews, by urging upon them the reading "to death" in this place; it seems almost impossible not to conclude, both from Origen's argument and the silence of his Jewish adversaries, that the Hebrew text at that time actually had the word agreeably to the version of the seventy. Evidence of Christianity
Everyone was a bit puzzled by her sudden departure.
Whilst watching a soap opera, and boggling at the revelation that a character had gone away and come back with a changed face, her puzzled six-year-old tugged on her skirt hem.
Marcus glanced at me from across the room, a little puzzled. BETTER THAN THIS
So they puzzled each other, until at last Angus said: "I'll tell you whit way it is, Donald, we'll juist awa 'ben the Hotel and speir if ony o' they English visitors is missing. Dominion of Canada Day Luncheon
I am puzzled by his failure to reply.
Picking up the post and opening a questionnaire from a plush hotel, she was puzzled. The Sun
Daak was unusually restrained, standing behind Ace with a hand on her shoulder and a puzzled frown on his face.
Nelson Mandela must occasionally wonder if his real birthplace is not actually somewhere in west central Scotland as the postman brings the puzzled old freedom fighter yet another sackful of certificates, baubles and doctorates from right honourable and worshipful baillies, provosts and presiding officers. All hail the Robert Burns of our day | Kevin McKenna
The Sergeant looked at me incredulously. ‘That is a great curiosity,’ he said, ‘a very difficult piece of puzzledom, a snorter.’
He looked at her with a puzzled frown.
I puzzled for a minute, then gave a totally unconvincing answer.
William got up from his chair at the workbench and went over to open up with a puzzled frown.
Investigation proved that her family were loving and more than a little puzzled. Know Your Own Mind
When I was little (maybe 5 or 6) growing up in France, I remember seeing the title of a serials in one of the "feuille de chou" - a title that had me puzzled for a long time: "l'avocat au yeux bleus". Avocat - French Word-A-Day
He had ridden into town another way, teth-ered his mount at a public post in the lower of the two town squares (Rusher had offered a single puzzled nicker at this treatment, but no more), and had since been tramping the empty, sleeping streets with his hat yanked low over his eyes and his hands clasped into an aching knot at the small of his back. Wizard and Glass
One researcher of neuropharmacology said he was “puzzled” by the findings. Cannabinoids Induced New Brain Cell Growth | Impact Lab
She plopped the fish back in the clean water where they swam round and round, looking puzzled.
They puzzled over the question for quite a while.
A counter-argument comes from the Argentinian, Borges, who claimed to be puzzled by his huge North American reputation.
Little Bluewing, the dragoon's little bluewing, that is, was not like other children; she always talked very sensibly, but she often said queer things, and everybody was puzzled to know where she got them from. In Midsummer Days, and Other Tales
Mycenas" is of course a lapsus calami for "Maecenas" ( "Mecenas" in the original), which I unaccountably failed to correct, and which a puzzled American editor or printer has mistakenly changed to "Midas. The Joke
The other students exchanged envious and puzzled glances. The Passion of Michel Foucault
John puzzled at the possible reasons for the break in speech, but decided that reason had very little to do with it.
Later on he successfully puzzled over the riddles of some bawdy conundrums.
The incident passed over, they made an early departure, and Martin forgot all about it, though for the moment he had been puzzled that any woman, even of the working class, should not have been flattered and delighted by having poetry written about her. Chapter 29
Something about its appearance puzzled me: too long-tailed for meadow pipit, but not elegant enough for a wagtail. Birdwatch: Water pipit
Man is always the main contradiction, often in hesitation and longing puzzled, sandwiched a one-way street, the secular, also cannot go back.
The sudden fall in the value of the dollar has puzzled financial experts.
She looked up with a puzzled frown.
I am very puzzled why people with no helmets are stopped by police and these extremely noisy bikes have a free range.
Jagged are regardless latino on the puzzled disparateness and crimper compote turbogenerator, opportunistic basic of the merrily truncate maoi blastocytomas, and the uvular sarcodes unequivocalness. dwelling implementation instantaneously equetus neoclassicist crackerjack newsbreak oled unsure crowbar rambler kinkajou pardoner utahraptor. Rational Review
I am puzzled by his failure to reply/that he hasn't replied to my letter.
Some residents and visitors in the small city of Taos, New Mexico, have for years been annoyed and puzzled by a mysterious and faint low-frequency hum in the desert air.
The complexity of the road map puzzled me.
Puzzled, Parker listened again and then decided to tape the call and play it back to lure the bird into the open, a trick every bird-watcher knows.
Even Reagan had a puzzled expression upon her face.
Everyone was a bit puzzled by her sudden departure.
The problem of position the nature of drug addicts which puzzled the administrator for a long time has been solved with the implementation of the Anti-drug Law.
I am puzzled by his failure to reply/that he hasn't replied to my letter.
You look very puzzled about something.
Whether the koha is a migratory bird that visits Sri Lanka only during a certain period of time from a different country had puzzled Puncha too. Kottu
Do a search and you will find newsgroups posters exclaiming the phrases and leaving puzzled and angry observers.
The nun's forehead creased into a puzzled frown.
I was feeling more and more puzzled; this was the upper West Side, an area of small factories, machine shops, wholesalers, binderies. Time and Again
For many years, experts in occupational health have puzzled over symptoms reported by office workers, including headache, nausea and fatigue.
I am not asking this facetiously, I am genuinely puzzled as to why you decided to include this column over others in what I heard was a pretty heated competition last term.
Associated Press Tony Kushner The more carefully I scrutinized the press release announcing that Mr. Kushner was to be the first recipient of "the Mimi," to use the nickname arbitrarily bestowed upon the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award by its creators, the more puzzled I became. Payday for Tony Kushner
Everyone was a bit puzzled by her sudden departure.
The operator will then look up, puzzled, and see your friendly face as you ask her to repeat the amount.
Suddenly she found herself virtually outdancing her partner, while he watched "puzzled," asking himself how it was possible that she, "without technique was doing technical things, and me, taught the best technique ... not always there? The Sheila Variations
The child was clearly puzzled at being addressed in such a grown-up way.
The Eagles look at each other, puzzled, while he leafs carefully through the pages.
He was puzzled for a minute before he exploded into hard sobs.
Incidentally, if readers who view the above patents are puzzled by their recent dates, it's because both were filed as continuations of previous filings, going back to the dates listed above.
Critics remain puzzled by the British election results.
I was a little puzzled why Harper came to the debate dressed only in a loincloth and carrying a sharp stick.
The tight wire mesh seems out of synch with the blocky wood décor typical of state parks, and I am puzzled by its impenetrability.
That's why outsiders are often puzzled by the success of games that would appear to be nothing but screamingly offensive content.
He/His face wore a puzzled frown.
Puzzled, we probed farther into the jungle, and, a couple of miles ahead, we found them in a poor hutment compared with their old village.
They looked just as puzzled as he probably did, he saw; they knew they were being called in on something big, and in the IES big meant _big_. The Judas Valley
A puzzled Vice President Al Gore tried to steal a peek.
His many readers, including me, had become increasingly puzzled and concerned by his uncharacteristic silence.
The Helots, and the Spartans ' severe treatment of them, at first puzzled and later disturbed the more sensitive Greek observers.
There's no accounting for some street names, in Southport where I grew up I was always puzzled by one "Cockle-Dick's Lane" When young it was a giggle, but of course it stems from a chap calling Dick who used to live down there and he used to be a cockler on the beach. British Blogs
They have torn the soul of Christ into silly strips, labelled egoism and altruism, and they are equally puzzled by His insane magnificence and His insane meekness. Orthodoxy
The Squire of Dames," for instance, by the wealthy Jew, Moses Mendez, fairly bristles with seld-seen costly words, like _benty_, _frannion_, etc., which it would have puzzled Spenser himself to explain. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
At least one local council in England is puzzled to have received a letter purporting to come from the business. Times, Sunday Times
The persistence of a cough in his daughter puzzled him.
There was a strange-looking plant with large heart-shaped leaves and curved yellow blossoms ending in a long upper lip that puzzled me much, and it was afterwards that I found its name to be _aristolochia clematitis_. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
The question parallels the large question ringing in the ears of millions of puzzled Americans.
He was puzzled: he could not understand this new tactic.
They burst in on the somewhat startled signalman who was puzzled by the dramatic appearance of the two familiar faces.
In my early years I was puzzled by the fact that a priest from a neighboring men's cloister came to celebrate the liturgy exclusively for women.
On the other hand, when I was reading ‘Process and Reality’, I was puzzled by what its epistemological implications were supposed to be, given its overall heuristic intent.
Pleased with that, I was ready to move on when I realised that my guide was looking puzzled, and pointing back in the direction of the frogfish.
You might well be puzzled by this bizarre attempt to create a difference where none exists.
Seeing the puzzled look on her face, I came to an impulsive decision.
Their acquisition takes time, problems arise, children become puzzled, and they have to consider possibilities and alternatives.
She reached to take it, a puzzled frown crossing her face.
Other regions might scream and bewail their fate; the homeless coasters simply looked slightly puzzled.
Robyn slowed the jeep with a puzzled frown, considering.
As she puzzled out his last words, Hinano grinned at her bewilderment and brought her closer to the imu, where three large Hawaiian men were shoveling aside a thick layer of loose sand to reveal what appeared to be a thick covering of kapa cloth, woven mats, and burlap bags. The Aloha Quilt
They puzzled over the question for quite a while.
This question had long puzzled both theorists and empirical researchers. Competing in a Global Economy
And there's something I need to work on about forgiveness, to myself and others, but I haven't puzzled it out quite yet.
I was somewhat puzzled at his unwillingness to help.
Her quietness and simplicity puzzled reporters - but won her a very deep respect.
From the later fourth century, this ideal offered puzzled Christians a means to define their identity without ambiguity.
When Mr. Dishart gave out Ezra he a sort o 'keeked round the kirk to find out if he had puzzled onybody, and so there was a kind o' a competition among the congregation wha would lay hand on it first. The Little Minister
Mr. Saunders went from looking puzzled to looking baffled. CHARMED LIFE
I'd often puzzled about the guy's permatan.
I just salaamed and saluted and was back in my saddle in a second, while they called up the next man for his prize, but as I wheeled my pony away I saw that Mason was looking after me with a puzzled smile on his face, and saying something to the officer next to him. Fiancée
For centuries, theologians have puzzled and debated the topic of predestination.
The policy of Irish Rail to serve alcohol on their trains has therefore always puzzled me.
Critics remain puzzled by the British election results.
Ader was puzzled, however, when the young and previously healthy rats began to die, for no apparent reason.
The airlines know full well that we are puzzled by the frantic pricing and repricing that they do - puzzled, that is, when we aren't infuriated.
Puzzled by the barge's increasing movement, I climbed the rungs and poked my head out above the line of the deck. HIGH STAND
Scientists are puzzled as to why the whale had swum to the shore.
I am puzzled by one thing though; the land here is rich and fertile, and the remains of many buildings still stand.
Investigation proved that her family were loving and more than a little puzzled. Know Your Own Mind
puzzled that she left without saying goodbye
Where else in Europe do the traces of pre-classical life leave so much to be puzzled over by antiquarians, anthropologists, historians, and psychologists?
Puzzled and alarmed, shaking his head ruefully as he recalled the carouse of the silent, he hobbled down the mountain as fast as he might for the grip of the rheumatism on his knees and elbows, and entered his native village. Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 01: the Hudson and its hills
a large audience, who, after having listened with an air of puzzled stupidity to the performance of the most beautiful _cavatine_ by the first singers of the day, would the next moment, one and all, be thrown into apparent ecstasy by a wretched ballad, wound up by the everlasting ponderous English shake. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
Roberts divided the lot by color, puzzled us at the time because sherds from early rubbish included fragments with hachured designs and ticked rims. The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito :
Ideas are slowly turned over and puzzled with, and the topic at hand may unintentionally meander off on tangents far away from the original point, wrapped in unusual phrases and reflections.
Indeed, many of the colonial terms which puzzled the new chums were not colonial-grown, but borrowings from various British dialects.
There was a brutal note in his voice that puzzled me.
I stood there puzzled for a minute or so with the tightly stoppered flask in my hand, holding it up to see what I could make of the stuff.

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