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Example sentences for: perplexing

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

U.S. policy-makers often find the operation of Chinese politics quite incomprehensible, but Chinese officials must find the United States equally perplexing.
The KLM pilot's otherwise perplexing use of the very nonstandard phrase at take-off, rather than the more standard phrase taking off, appears to have been a subtle form of what linguists call code-switching, a process in which bilingual or multilingual speakers inadvertently switch back and forth from one of their languages to another in the course of a conversation.
Such a perplexing word might be called a contronym, using the prefix contra- (from the Latin contra meaning against), or possibly a contradictonym.
No, the most perplexing thing about all the merger talk is the reaction of investors, who have driven up the prices of pharmaceutical stocks pretty much across the board.
At the same time, perhaps from an unconscious discomfort caused by so many perplexing plurals, there has been a mini-trend in the opposite direction.