Example sentences for: puzzlement

How can you use “puzzlement” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Encouraging people to identify themselves as hyphenated Americans encourages multicultural consciousness and generates a growing sense of puzzlement about what it means to say that all Americans are of a single nation.

  • It has long been a source of puzzlement to me that borogoves is a source of puzzlement to others.

  • As played by Jeremy Brett, Holmes was so eccentric, so mannered, that all attention was drawn to him, rather than to the story--and after you had seen him several times, he elicited giggles rather than puzzlement.

  • "That's why I was attracted to you ," she replies, prompting a look of puzzlement.

  • These are, no doubt, parochial concerns, but Brodkey always seemed to be deliberately provoking the puzzlement, coyly playing hide-and-seek with us.


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