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How to use puzzlement in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Puzzlement means the confusing state of being puzzled; bewilderment. Example: “The puzzlement caused by the complex system led to great anger.”

Examples of puzzlement by meaning

nounThe confusing state of being puzzled; bewilderment.

  • The puzzlement caused by the complex system led to great anger.

nounA puzzle; something baffling.

  • “'Tis a puzzlement.”2005 [1992], Jeanne Hanson, Deane Morrison, The World's Oddest and Most Wonderful Mammals, Insects, Birds and Plants, page 218
  • The diary contains plenty of small puzzlements.2007 October 14, Alex Mindlin, “1924, Through an Ancestor’s Eyes”, in New York Times

More sentences with puzzlement

  • The doctor's eyebrows had gone synclinal from puzzlement without his awareness.1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 75. From the entry synclinal
  • The púca scrunched up his face in puzzlement and rubbed his bald head.1995, Risa Aratyr, Hunter of the Light, HarperCollins, →ISBN. From the entry geis
  • Meanwhile, during all this puzzlement, those unpleasant waves, biological ripple upon nasty ripple, kept up assailment on my legs and backbone.2018, Anna Burns, Milkman, London: Faber & Faber, Part 3. From the entry assailment
  • So, Shasta had reflected at once, Aunt Lily, by acclamation the family raconteuse, had certainly piqued her concern and puzzlement, if not exactly her surprise.2012, William Penn, Love in the Time of Flowers, →ISBN, page 51. From the entry raconteuse
  • “Oh yeah, I owe you for a bottle of voddy by the way.” “Why?” he asked, screwing his face up in puzzlement.2005, Jack Leonard, Bad Altitude. From the entry voddy
  • I scratch my nose in puzzlement.1999, Carole Nelson Douglas, “Ya-kitty-yak”, in Cat in a Jeweled Jumpsuit (Midnight Louie Mysteries), New York, N.Y.: Forge, Tom Doherty…. From the entry monkeyese
  • As the time passed, they glowed softly, in a wannish white, to the puzzlement of all except Gray, who knew, somehow, that this was the color of unconscious angels.2009, G[eorge] F[ranklin] Skipworth, “The Ruse”, in Fire and Iceland (Fables of the Carpailtin Campfire; 2), Portland, Ore.: Rosslare…. From the entry wannish

Meaning of puzzlement

  1. noun The confusing state of being puzzled; bewilderment.
  2. noun A puzzle; something baffling.

Full definition of puzzlement

Questions about puzzlement in a sentence

How do you use puzzlement in a sentence?
Puzzlement is used as a noun. For example: “The puzzlement caused by the complex system led to great anger.”
What is a short sentence with puzzlement?
““'Tis a puzzlement.””
What does puzzlement mean?
Puzzlement means the confusing state of being puzzled; bewilderment.

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