PUZZLING in a Sentence

Learn PUZZLING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
187 example sentences for PUZZLING, such as:
1. This puzzle is a real sod.
2. Stretch your brain with this puzzle.
3. There was no need to puzzle out the plot.
4. Both of them lisp out their words on this puzzle.
5. I view creative writing as a kind of jigsaw puzzle.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of PUZZLING
puzzling
 v.  be a mystery or bewildering to
 n.  a game that tests your ingenuity
Classic Sentence: (157 in 11 pages)
1  After all, she wasn't reading Melanie's mail to learn Ashley's puzzling and uninteresting ideas.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
2  Silently she vowed she would go North to her own people, taking her children with her, and leave these puzzling stiff-necked strangers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
3  From the moment his daughter was born, Rhett's conduct was puzzling to all observers and he upset many settled notions about himself, notions which both the town and Scarlett were loath to surrender.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
4  A curious and most puzzling question might be started concerning this visual matter as touching the Leviathan.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 74. The Sperm Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
5  There is another substance, and a very singular one, which turns up in the course of this business, but which I feel it to be very puzzling adequately to describe.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 94. A Squeeze of the Hand.
6  It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
7  I was still puzzling over it when I heard the door gently close again, and her footsteps coming up the stairs.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
8  I went slowly along, puzzling about the machines, and had been too intent upon them to notice the gradual diminution of the light, until Weena's increasing apprehensions drew my attention.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VIII
9  The mass of those to whom slavery was a dim recollection of childhood found the world a puzzling thing: it asked little of them, and they answered with little, and yet it ridiculed their offering.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IV
10  Much that the white boy imbibes from his earliest social atmosphere forms the puzzling problems of the black boy's mature years.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
11  The black-faced lad that paused over his mud and marbles seventy years ago saw puzzling vistas as he looked down the world.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XII
12  Here was another puzzling question; and as Alice could not think of any good reason, and as the Caterpillar seemed to be in a VERY unpleasant state of mind, she turned away.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V. Advice from a Caterpillar
13  I was puzzling to make out the subject of a picture on the wall, when the door opened, and an individual carrying a light entered; another followed close behind.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
14  I guessed that what puzzled the New Yorkers would puzzle the Londoners, so I dipped my finger in my own blood and printed it on a convenient place on the wall.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
15  There was no need to puzzle out the plot.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
Example Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1  What's puzzling is why the rest of the world still wants to hold its money as a reserve currency.
2  His very last paintings are perhaps the most puzzling.
3  This piece won't fit into the puzzle, none will work for it.
4  You puzzle me, Jane: your look and tone of sorrowful audacity perplex and pain me.
5  I noticed that she was working on the crossword puzzle from the Post when were first got there.
6  The reel of silk has run smoothly enough so far; but I always knew there would come a knot and a puzzle.
7  This puzzle would tear the organization between opposing choices: for or against eating shark fins.
8  Both of them lisp out their words on this puzzle.
9  In working out the solution to this logic puzzle, you may find it helpful to construct a simple schematic diagram outlining the order of events.
10  He will puzzle out the significance of the statement at coming meeting.
11  I view creative writing as a kind of jigsaw puzzle.
12  I can't answer that puzzle; I give up.
13  Stretch your brain with this puzzle.
14  Geneticists in Canada have discovered a clue to the puzzle of why our cells get old and die.
15  This puzzle is a real sod.