Examples of 'puzzling' in a sentence

Meaning of "puzzling"

To solve or decipher a problem or mystery, often for entertainment or mental exercise (verb). Puzzle can also refer to something that is hard to understand or explain
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  • present participle of puzzle
  • Difficult to understand or explain; enigmatic or confusing; perplexing.
  • Time spent pondering something confusing.

How to use "puzzling" in a sentence

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You have a puzzling definition of a smooth ride.
This is indeed a strange and puzzling world.
This decline is puzzling and needs to be explored.
Puzzling pieces from your crime scene.
Some of the results are puzzling but understandable.
Some puzzling aspects to the case remain.
These remarks are puzzling for two reasons.
It was puzzling and uncharacteristic of these two women.
Which is the most puzzling thing of all.
It is a puzzling weapon and its effects are mysterious.
Origins behind some puzzling baseball terms.
Puzzling if you have only six tables.
Europe presents a puzzling aspect to the world.
Puzzling me to fall and grab these walls.
You are more puzzling all the time.

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Puzzling pentagrams and symbolism in city streets.
There is yet another puzzling piece of evidence.
This puzzling phenomenon is called resource curse.
This is a very mysterious and puzzling thing.
He would been puzzling through all sorts of stories.
Malaysian bloggers find the action puzzling.
We have been puzzling over the local mystery.
I can see how that would be puzzling.
I am still puzzling over madeira and sherry.
So this small missing chunk here is puzzling.
What is puzzling to me are the reactions in the media.
One condition in particular had been puzzling doctors.
This too is puzzling and is not explained.
To rely on theoretical conclusion is indeed a bit puzzling.
The more puzzling argument is over federalism.
They help with a specially puzzling enigma.
Lots of puzzling things going on in the next diagram.
Now there are some cartoons that are puzzling.
Puzzling statements or stories from the child.
We fell asleep puzzling over the translation.
I could never understand this puzzling remark.
I remember puzzling over it a few years ago.
I could use your astronomical puzzling expertise.
It is puzzling to see the psalm in question ending thus.
This still leaves a number of puzzling verses.
These puzzling signals from space.
They are in the middle of a very puzzling case.
It got even more puzzling when we found dunes.
And there is something else puzzling here.
That was a real puzzling piece of machinery.
Even back than one thing was puzzling.
I am picking up that puzzling energy reading.
The varied responses to a glucose shortage were puzzling.
He was a puzzling man who loved puzzles.
To the artist you are a puzzling subject.

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