Example sentences for: mystified

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

  • But even though as a boy I lived on a ranch right on the Mexican border, I remember being mystified by ranching terms that crept into Western songs from north of us, cayuse, for example.

  • Van Dine's detective novels of the 1930s might have been mystified by the insertion into the dialogue of its lordly hero expressions like don'tcher know and the anathematized ain't .

  • William Safire claims to be mystified today about the intense loyalty Bill Clinton inspires.

  • He also said he is mystified by his films' lack of success in the United States in comparison with their reception in Europe.

  • ("I have always been mystified by international finance since I took a course in it at the University of Chicago 62 years ago," he wrote in a Slate "" exchange a year ago--almost, but not quite, embarrassing me out of a disquisition on the International Monetary Fund and the sad state of the Russian and Japanese economies.)


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