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Example sentences for: puzzlement

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

I wrote to Cassidy expressing puzzlement.
These are, no doubt, parochial concerns, but Brodkey always seemed to be deliberately provoking the puzzlement, coyly playing hide-and-seek with us.
Friends would thank me with polite puzzlement when I gave them great children's books I knew they'd love--then would tuck them away in the bookshelves for when their kids were a bit older.
As played by Jeremy Brett, Holmes was so eccentric, so mannered, that all attention was drawn to him, rather than to the story--and after you had seen him several times, he elicited giggles rather than puzzlement.
The one puzzlement is how to pronounce comic puzzlement, variously spelled as ??? or ?!