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

The subject baffles me.
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.
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.
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.
What baffles me is your refusal to engage an argument that I have made--any argument, either in this exchange, or from the book.