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Example sentences for: puzzlement

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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.
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.
It has long been a source of puzzlement to me that borogoves is a source of puzzlement to others.
Slate ran an item about Gabriel García Márquez's News of a Kidnapping a couple of weeks ago, reporting a general puzzlement among reviewers.
These are, no doubt, parochial concerns, but Brodkey always seemed to be deliberately provoking the puzzlement, coyly playing hide-and-seek with us.