Example sentences for: perplexing

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

  • 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.

  • And what's perplexing about this, particularly in light of the Microsoft case, is that mergers often have an immediate anti-competitive impact, in the simplest sense that they reduce the number of players in a market.

  • Unknown to him, the conversation down at the harbor would be even more perplexing.

  • But both also miss his perplexing reality, the ambiguity of a man whose life and work refuse to add up to a simple object lesson.

  • 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.


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