How To Use Puzzlement In A Sentence
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No one can make up their minds what to do, and then when they finally do, they end up backtracking, retracing their steps, and returning to the scene of the previous puzzlement to more or less complete the vacuous cycle.
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Kirk watched his friend's expression mutate from puzzlement to annoyance to amazement.
Dreams of the Raven
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This women's protest was received with expressions of outrage and puzzlement by men within the dominant political culture.
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Something of my puzzlement must've shown on my face.
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My surprise and puzzlement grew after I read the following passage.
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His brow furrowed in puzzlement.
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The diary contains plenty of small puzzlements.
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The delays seem to have been caused partly by American puzzlement at Tintin.
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‘There was considerable readerly puzzlement’, as Lawrence Jones puts it in his introduction.
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It's as warm as thick porridge, but with enough pace and puzzlement to grip.
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He disappeared without explanation, to much puzzlement.
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Their urgency was infectious, his puzzlement prompted like the sting of memory.
THE LAST RAVEN
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The two nobles frowned in puzzlement as they stood with the trumpeter, bannerman, and white-crested officer.
Lord of the Isles
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The best way I can describe my reaction is some mix of puzzlement and incredulity.
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Doesn't the imbroglio with the European Constitution bear witness to the same puzzlement: Which Europe do we want?
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I was left with puzzlement as to the existence or non-existence of God.
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That technology was rolled out earlier this month, to widespread puzzlement.
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She looked at me, with puzzlement and pity written all over her face - like I was some sort of div or something.
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Parks's puzzlement, anger and discomfort are sharply conveyed.
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Their puzzlement increased four minutes after the restart as the visitors doubled their tally.
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Mainstream economists profess much puzzlement over the failure of the rate of productivity growth to accelerate so far in this decade.
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Puzzlement clouded her face, the wonder of the encounter giving way to confusion.
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The girl who once called herself Jill Blando always harboured a sense of puzzlement that people found her clever, talented and beautiful.
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In the first moments of waking, he looks up in puzzlement at the aged ceiling fan revolving above his bed.
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Mainstream economists profess much puzzlement over the failure of the rate of productivity growth to accelerate so far in this decade.
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The poem is a whimsical elegy on the death of a friend's husband, focusing on the denial and hope and implausible resilience of the survivor, in the proud silent puzzlement of a cat left alone.
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There is serious puzzlement about some of his choices.
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News of Gen. Meade's victory over Gen. Lee destroyed the last effort by the Confederacy to win recognition in Parliament, but the celebration at the U.S. Embassy was muted by the staff's puzzlement over the nonappearance of the weekly mail ship from New York.
Turning Messy History Into a Tale
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She came in smiling then stopped hen she saw the deep puzzlement on her son's face.
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No, the whole lack of pre-marriage activity (to be blunt: the total lack of a social life) was what my puzzlement was rooted in.
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To misuse or break the rules of winking is to produce misunderstanding, puzzlement, complaint, or some other social reaction.
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I actually got little tommy's remark. after about five minutes of total puzzlement. good luck to the rest of you! contemplating it while in a front loading dryer on "cottons" helps!
Agatha Christie Banned in Ohio
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I queried, the look of puzzlement on my face betraying the fact that I hadn't a clue what he was talking about.
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As he wove in and out of the knotted trunks Nick heard the ping, ping around him with a moment's puzzlement.
THE WHITE DOVE
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In the guest categories, lots of Saturday Night Live guest hosts, including double-dipper Tina Fey and Justin Timberlake, and Glee headliners like Kristin Chenoweth and Gwyneth Paltrow, but the real puzzlement is Raising Hope's Cloris Leachman, who was a regular cast member in everything but actual billing.
Critic's Notebook: The Emmy Nominations
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The girl who once called herself Jill Blando always harboured a sense of puzzlement that people found her clever, talented and beautiful.
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She's full of stories and takes the mickey out of herself with a nice combination of faux puzzlement and sarcasm.
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Most foreign observers might be forgiven for a little puzzlement at all the fuss.
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He reminded me of Reese Witherspoons dad in the Blonde flick, who is standing by the pool with his martini glass and asks her with bored puzzlement in his voice, as she floats in the pool with her hotpink sequined bikini, 'whyever would you want to go to law school Elle, that is for boring folks who want to work, not us ....
CT-SEN: Lieberman Ahead In New Poll
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Another potential application of work on categories lies in the idea that various mistakes and puzzlements in ontology can be traced to the mistaken belief that category-neutral existential and quantificational claims are truth-evaluable (see Thomasson 2007).
Categories
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Bessey encountered a spectrum of incomprehension, scorn, puzzlement and good will.
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In puzzlement she watched as Vandune passed through a niche in the amphitheater wall and disappeared into an alcove.
MAJIPOOR CHRONICLES
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In puzzlement she watched as Vandune passed through a niche in the amphitheater wall and disappeared into an alcove.
MAJIPOOR CHRONICLES
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Harriet had observed this growing estrangement with genuine puzzlement.
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But Opee-Kwan doubted, and brushed his hand across his brow in sore puzzlement.
Nam-Bok, the Unveracious
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Kate scratched her head, an expression of puzzlement on her face.
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It surveyed the great civilizations in wonder and puzzlement - and then it plunged back still further, far back, into much the longest mistiest epoch of man's history, before history began, before he had so much as a fire to warm him at night, or a brain to guide his hand at hunting.
HOTHOUSE
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From their works, we can read a young and live emotion, which abreact and disclose their puzzlement, fear, nostalgia, withdrawnness, violence, humor and strength.
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He disappeared without explanation, to much puzzlement.
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He looked at her with slight puzzlement, even resentment.
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When the supposedly expected guffaws fail to materialize, Martin feigns puzzlement.
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He had a 400-word soliloquy that was all over the place, from supposed public puzzlement over some of the judge's decisions, a quip about the senator's son going to University of Pennsylvania, followed by the senator's recollection of speaking at Princeton.
Flavia Colgan: Alito Drowning in Words
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Mainstream economists profess much puzzlement over the failure of the rate of productivity growth to accelerate so far in this decade.
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Puzzlement outside the country has been matched by even greater anxiety within it.
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There seems to be some puzzlement as to why liberals are skittish about the deficit commission.
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Grace is still sitting on the floor of the balloon, frowning in puzzlement.
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Having shaken hands with Roger, he turned to us, his expression shifting to one of slight puzzlement.
Dreaming in French
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I was left with puzzlement as to the existence or non-existence of God.
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To misuse or break the rules of winking is to produce misunderstanding, puzzlement, complaint, or some other social reaction.
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I suppose this is possible, but I confess to puzzlement.
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It is to be regretted that she declines to do so: I might finally have received a proper answer to the question with which I started (in genuine puzzlement) - How do the contributors here arrive at their confident, not to say chokingly indignant, conclusions about climate change when so much science is implicated from so many different disciplines?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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He disappeared without explanation, to much puzzlement.
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The ultimate cause of failure only deepens the sense of puzzlement.
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Mainstream economists profess much puzzlement over the failure of the rate of productivity growth to accelerate so far in this decade.