Example sentences for: puzzles

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

  • True enough, my father was a lightning calculator and an expert at solving arithmetical puzzles.

  • Readers are also invited to submit their own puzzles (along with a solution path).

  • If I could not identify a missing word in a quotation, I marked that down to my own failing, one that was not likely to be remedied by looking it up in Bartlett , after which it would be promptly forgotten; mercifully, not all clues in puzzles are quotations, so some of them worked out; besides, the word that had to be supplied was usually a very common one and its only connection with the quotation was that it happended to appear in it, like be in To be or not to be.

  • What puzzles me about her nattering on is this: She is well aware of my opinions, which are completely opposed to hers--so why is she always gassing on like this?


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