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Puzzled in sentence

152 examples of Puzzled in a sentence

I admit that I was a bit puzzled by the perspective of this movie.
I was a bit puzzled though by the facial damage on a person who had'nt been to the match.
If I remember well it was a summer day, or night, some twenty years ago! when by chance I saw an episode I now recognize as a third season one; I was puzzled then since I realized I was missing something from the life's stories of these intriguing characters: it was like intruding in someone else's life, more than a pi standard TV-movie... That's it: I believe you're hooked by the believable interaction of the main characters, their likes and dislikes; some episodes are quite 'poor' and unbelievable, but never awful; other episodes are more complex and well shot; but almost always you'll have some fun with them; and finally Magnum's off screen voice is capturing your attention, and make you another close friend worth of his confidence...
I am puzzled as to the overall meaning implied here.
I must admit I wasn't bored I was just puzzled.
It has puzzled me though that the more I read the subtitles in the DVD and hear the dialog I am convinced the two characters were each having extramarital affairs.
That puzzled me and kept me watching.
But after doing that I found myself puzzled.
Indeed, China’s strategists are frequently puzzled by the lack of “balancing” that takes place against the US in the region.
On the contrary, they are puzzled about why we view the current low level of US long-term interest rates as worrisome.
Japanese businessmen may be a little puzzled by the creative chaos of India; the argumentative culture can seem alien to them.
As a Korean, I am always puzzled by Korean extremism.
On the contrary, economic theorists have been puzzled by the historical rate of increase in the stock market, which they call “the equity premium puzzle.”
Many elites are puzzled about why poor or working-class people would vote for someone like Trump.
I am puzzled, and frankly appalled, by the Fed’s failure to explain how it will restore its balance sheet to a non-inflationary level.
I am puzzled that so many economic pundits seem to think that the solution is for all governments, rich and poor, to pass out even more checks and subsidies so as to keep the boom going.
But they don’t disappear, and Darwin was so puzzled by this that he spoke of altruism as a problem that could prove fatal to his whole theory of evolution.
Many economists and some foreign observers are puzzled by the emphasis Sarkozy has placed on this expensive provision.
Philosophers have puzzled about how to justify our intuitions in these situations, given that in both cases, the choice seems to be between saving five lives at the cost of taking one life.
Many senior Americans were puzzled that Turkey, a long-standing NATO ally and a secular state, refused to allow American forces to use Turkey as a base to invade Iraq.
These points are not entirely insignificant, but I would not care to explain them to a meeting of ordinary voters puzzled about Britain’s new European policy.
Angell puzzled over how pre-WWI pan-German politicians could believe that German prosperity required a big battle fleet when the absence of one made no difference to the prosperity of Norway, Denmark, or Holland.
But, while inflation is very likely to remain low for the next few years, I am puzzled that bond prices show that investors apparently expect inflation to remain low for ten years and beyond, and that they also do not require higher interest rates as compensation for the risk that the fiscal deficit will cause real interest rates to rise in the future.
Many Turks who go to the US for the first time are puzzled, indeed, by its religiosity .
They arrived at this conclusion when trying to reconcile a contradiction that has long puzzled those who study both biology and physics.
This failure puzzled Philip Tetlock, then a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, so much that he wrote an entire book about it.
He must be puzzled as to why his more recent insults now seem to matter to voters.
'Then how can you doubt that God created everything?' said the priest in puzzled amazement.
But had he, and those who understood the matter in the 'right' way, been asked what this understanding amounted to, they would have been much puzzled how to reply.
But he liked and understood complications in spheres congenial and familiar to him; in these strange surroundings he felt puzzled and dazed and could not take it all in.
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