Words similar to baffles

Example sentences for: baffles

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

What baffles me is your refusal to engage an argument that I have made--any argument, either in this exchange, or from the book.
The scientists were sorely vexed, To classify him so perplexed Their brains that they with rags at bay Called him a horrid name one day, A name that baffles, frights, and shocks us, Ornithorhynchus paradoxus.
The subject baffles me.
Donald Macintosh's anecdote about the Scottish workman whose conversation baffles the visiting Frenchwoman [XXII,2] makes the unwarranted assumption that the common speech of the people of the Scottish Lowlands is an English dialect.
In the cited example, the feed manufacturer was even named--which should have been a clue to the author, although the terminal part of the phrase (1091 DS) admittedly baffles me.