Puzzled Sentence Examples

He regarded her with a puzzled expression.

I was greatly puzzled to know what he was doing.

There was a puzzled note in Toni's voice.

She met his puzzled gaze.

Indeed, many of her eager questions would have puzzled a far wiser person than I am.

He was puzzled by the question given that she had written most of the plans.

The king, for once, was puzzled.

He hesitated, studying her face with a puzzled expression.

Puzzled, she pushed open the doors on the side of the room opposite the balcony.

Once, when a question puzzled her very much, I suggested that we take a walk and then perhaps she would understand it.

I must confess I was puzzled at first.

What she saw puzzled her.

Bianca smiled, puzzled why anyone would run from the small, beautiful woman.

During this time the illusion of a wheel or wheels produced by the ciliary action of the disk had puzzled all observers.

The Doctor was puzzled.

He gazed at the message, puzzled, before he realized who it was and typed a response.

According to one story, Archimedes was puzzled till one day, as he was stepping into a bath and observed the water running over, it occurred to him that the excess of bulk occasioned by the introduction of alloy could be measured by putting the crown and an equal weight of gold separately into a vessel filled with water, and observing the difference of overflow.

She looked puzzled and felt my hand, and I repeated the letters.

Sarah met them at the door, her puzzled gaze going from Giddon to Lisa.

Puzzled, she texted him again.

Rhyn looked at Kris, puzzled by the nonsense.

She walked into the living room, puzzled to see Evelyn boxing up her bookshelf.

The movement caught Giddon's attention and he glanced from Tammy to Lisa with a puzzled expression.

She met his puzzled gaze defiantly.

Puzzled, she freed them one by one, studying them.

He gazed down at her with a puzzled expression.

Cade was standing over her, a puzzled expression on his face as he contemplated her work.

After the expiration of his term as vicepresident (March 4, 1805), broken in fortune and virtually an exile from New York, where, as in New Jersey, he had been indicted for murder after the duel with Hamilton, Burr visited the South-west and became involved in the so-called conspiracy which has so puzzled the students of that period.

It would have puzzled the devil himself!

But while Nicholas was considering these questions and still could reach no clear solution of what puzzled him so, the wheel of fortune in the service, as often happens, turned in his favor.

Taking her shoes from him, she met his puzzled gaze and shrugged.

Jessi's tone carried a puzzled note.

She gazed at him, puzzled.

Puzzled, restless, he returned and crouched beside Logan Myers.

He sounded genuinely puzzled.

Giovanni appeared genuinely puzzled.

Realization played across her mind, echoed in a puzzled smile dancing across her face.

She thought a moment and then turned to Dean, a puzzled look on her face.

He stared at her, obviously puzzled by her refusal.

She stared at him, puzzled.

The marquis of the state was puzzled how to treat him.

Was he puzzled or angry?

Davis and Fritz exchanged puzzled glances.

He nodded, looking puzzled.

Puzzled, she started to respond when someone rushed down the stairs by her.

Shivering, she nodded, puzzled.

Wynn caught her, puzzled.

She looked around her, puzzled.

For a moment he looked puzzled.

Thomas was puzzled by the strange shape and fashion of the accordion.

If it's your first time dressing as a woman, you may find yourself puzzled when it's time to do something as simple as sit or walk.

She handed them to Howard, who watched her face with a puzzled expression.

Past-Death's smile was puzzled.

As the afternoon wore on, she puzzled through what buttons controlled what, which were oriented toward the space battle and which toward the ground.

She looked again at the flower, puzzled.

The specter pointed back towards the lake.  Katie slowed and watched Gabriel continue onward.  She'd liked Andre above any of the Council members, but his insistence that she go in the direction opposite of which she was headed puzzled her.

No one can predict Death.  No one even sees her, unless they die-dead."  "It must be a lonely existence for her," she said, puzzled as to why he'd speak more highly of Darkyn than he had of Death.

Follow me, Toby said.  He cast another puzzled look at Deidre and ran forward.

I didn't expect you to be so …calm, Eden said, puzzled.

Thus both the Mangaians and the Egyptians have been puzzled by their own gods in the form of beasts.

The inability to know how he should react puzzled him.

I didn't expect you to be so …calm, Eden said, puzzled.

Puzzled, the violinist asked " Did you ever play string quartets?

When it is further remembered that the earlier telescopes were not provided with the modern slow motions in right ascension and that the Struves,, in their extensive labours among the double stars, used to complete their bisections of the fixed wire by a pressure of the finger on the side of the tube, one is puzzled whether more to wonder at such poor adaptation of means to ends or the patience and skill which, with such means, led to such results.'

The master was certainly puzzled by his pupil; he saw his ability, and, when Millet in his poverty could not longer pay the monthly fees, arranged for his free admission to the studio, but he tried in vain to make him take the approved direction, and lessons ended with "Eh, bien, allez a votre guise, vous etes si nouveau pour moi que je ne veux rien vous dire."

Her words puzzled me very much because I did not then understand anything unless I touched it.

It was the first Christmas tree she had ever seen, and she was puzzled, and asked many questions.

Puzzled, the violinist asked Did you ever play string quartets?

By now, the song had devolved into an agonizing guitar solo, prompting puzzled expressions from the guests.

The Italian infantry, waiting under a crushing bombardment, were puzzled and disheartened by the silence of their own guns.

He seemed puzzled, dark brows drawing together in the finely sculpted face.

I was a little puzzled to start with, then I felt deeply hurt by the obvious snub.

Prior to my years in Saudi Arabia, I had been puzzled by the vehemence of the traditional ulema 's hostility to Wahhabism.

One of his earliest publications gave the complete theory and formulae of the phenomenon known as Brownian motion, which had puzzled physicists for nearly 80 years.

According to his own testimony he arrived at the university " with a stock of information which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy might be ashamed."

I remember she asked me if I liked little Pearl, and explained some of the words that had puzzled me.

For several years, critics of Britain 's private finance initiative have been puzzled by its extraordinary resilience.

For this reason, few really know the true Sacha Baron Cohen, leaving many puzzled about whether or not his characters are real or simply a put-on.

Doctors have always been puzzled by why some people develop heart disease while others with identical HDL and LDL levels do not.

I'm just puzzled why he hasn't made any moves to get to know me.

Audrina Patridge, who recently left The Hills, has said that she's puzzled over Montag's desire to change herself so dramatically, and thinks it's all "a bit much."

Puzzled, she concentrated on two more sources of magic.

She watched him go, admiring and puzzled.

Puzzled, she studied her finger, not understanding what was cutting it.

I thought the Immortals said they only get one mate, Deidre started, puzzled.

This manifesto was at first taken, not only as the platform of the government, but also as that from which its resigning free-trade members had dissented; and the country was puzzled by a statement from Lord George Hamilton that Mr Balfour had circulated among his colleagues a second and different document, in fuller agreement with Mr Chamberlain.

It was in itself a foretaste of resurrection, and the puzzled disciples remembered that the scribes declared that before the resurrection Elijah would appear.

The puzzled Moslem doctors explain this fact on the ground that the Hashimites were regarded as too noble to hold ordinary administrative offices, and that they could not be spared at Medina, where their counsel was required in all important affairs.

In 1831 he was appointed vicar at Kirchenlarnitz, where his fervent evangelical preaching attracted large congregations and puzzled the ecclesiastical authorities.

But, on the whole, the religious sentiment strives to transcend the mythical conceptions of the gods, and is shocked and puzzled by the mythical narratives.

It is admitted that Greeks, Romans, Aryans of India in the age of the Sanskrit commentators, Egyptians of the Ptolemaic and earlier ages, were as much puzzled as we are by the mythical adventures of their gods.

He's really puzzled why the lights were turned off.

She picked up her book and walked past the female Guardian, who watched her go, puzzled.

Lana started forward again and circled the transport, puzzled by the mix of uniforms.

Rhyn glanced from the rolling teal waves to his mate.  Her words about Gabe were troubling, and he couldn't determine if she was purposely vague or really didn't know.  Her pretty face was puzzled, and he frowned.  She was beyond tired.  Whatever was happening to her in the underworld, it wasn't good.  Anger filled him.  As much as he wanted to stay in the dream world in case it really was the last time he saw her, he couldn't help her while stuck in the dream.

The soliloquy at the end showed a man still puzzled by his continuing inability to ever see anything more than the facts.

Part 1 Chapter 1 - in which Four go through The Big Round Thing Sergeant Davis stared at the monitor with a puzzled frown.

He looked a bit puzzled as to where his healing potion had gone but just shrugged the thought away.

For several years, critics of Britain's private finance initiative have been puzzled by its extraordinary resilience.

But Miss Sullivan shook her head, and I was greatly puzzled and disappointed.

The adjutant looked at Pierre as if puzzled what to do with him now.

His touching soliloquy at the end showed a man still puzzled by his continuing inability to ever see anything more than the facts.

In fact, when members of the Enterprise crew tell alien races where they are from, many respond with puzzled looks and say "Earth?

His face was a road map of emotion, traveling from puzzled, to comprehensive and then on to frustration.

I think, she said, puzzled.

Hannah appeared puzzled by the invitation but smiled when Rhyn turned to her.

Her words about Gabe were troubling, and he couldn't determine if she was purposely vague or really didn't know; her pretty face was puzzled, and he frowned.

Puzzled, he pulled the drive free of his PDA and reinserted it.  The single file within was still empty.  Kris tossed it on a table.

She sat down to read, growing more puzzled as she did.

The new essays in this volume were mostly critical, but one of them, in which perhaps his guessing talent is seen at its best, "The Divisions of the Irish Family," is an elaborate discussion of a problem which has long puzzled both Celtic scholars and jurists; and in another, "On the Classificatory System of Relationship," he propounded a new explanation of a series of facts which, he thought, might throw light upon the early history of society, at the same time putting to the test of those facts the theories he had set forth in Primitive Marriage.

If, however, we defined the strength of the source by the statement that the strength divided 1 The beginner is often puzzled by the constant appearance of the factor 47r in electrical theorems. It arises from the manner in which the unit quantity of electricity is defined.

This appearance puzzled the older observers, who were led thereby to give the name" wheel-bearers "to the group, until the true character of ciliary motion was recognized; for a wheel cannot be i i organic continuity with the support on which it rotates..

Taken by surprise, puzzled by the comparative silence of their own guns and blinded by the mist, the troops of the 10th Div.

She gave him a puzzled smile and reached out to take the phone he held out.

His puzzled expression turned dark when he noticed Carmen wasn't wearing her sling.

Claudette laced her fingers and leaned against the counter, eyeing Cynthia with a puzzled expression.

The puzzled curiosity on the features of Darkyn's mate made Deidre wonder if the girl fully understood what had happened.