Example sentences for: perplexity

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

  • ' A momentary flicker of perplexity on the interviewer's face showed that he had not the slightest idea of what the speaker had said, but he blandly continued without missing a stroke.

  • Finally seeing the movie, I find it hard not to share Smith's perplexity.

  • Such gossip pales beside this "maundering," this reverie for which I am intensely thankful; for nothing so solaces me, calms me in the perplexity of life, and miraculously raises its burdens, as this sublime power, this divine talent for writing endlessly about hardly anything at all, & one should no more interrupt it, while it lasts than one should break the crockery in one's home and leave the shards lying on the kitchen floor for no reason.

  • "American perplexity over how a politically impotent entity [the European central bank] could govern such an ambitious currency is well founded," he wrote.

  • However, because of our oldness, we all agree that the perplexity should soon resolve itself.


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