Puzzling Sentence Examples

The results obtained are sometimes puzzling, because it is.

Comyn partly explored the northern and western affluents of the Ghazal, and threw some light on the puzzling hydrography and nomenclature of those tributaries.

He studied the pictures and began puzzling through the words, determined to discover why a woman who could not read books chose to keep this one in her chamber.

He found that puzzling, never considering himself to have much of a conscience.

The meat was smoking hot and the knives and forks were performing strange antics and jumping here and there in quite a puzzling way.

Studies can help to devise treatment plans for this puzzling illness.

Tired of puzzling over the world around her, Lana shrugged off the rucksack, pushed Jack over, and lay down with him.

From this point, however, the record is puzzling.

In Migula's scheme the attempt is made to avoid some of these difficulties, but others are introduced by his otherwise clever devices for dealing with these puzzling little organisms.

Like him, he goes to Paris, and there meets with Panurge, the principal triumph of Rabelaisian characterdrawing, and the most original as well as puzzling figure of the book.

The helium formations do not reach the sun's limb, and it is another puzzling detail that the spectrum of the disk shows no absorption line of anything like an intensity to correspond with the emission line of helium in the chromosphere.

It is clear that these results may give a simple key to some puzzling anomalies, and on the other hand, they may throw a measure of uncertainty over absolute determinations of line-of-sight velocities.

They are sometimes puzzling, often speculative; yet nearly all that is obscure in them becomes clear, much apparent contradiction disappears, when read by these persistent unvarying lights.

The Pathans are split up into different tribes, each tribe into clans, and each clan into sections, so that the nomenclature is often very puzzling.

I.m still puzzling through that part.

What was even more puzzling was that the noise was coming from below him in the old abandoned adit.

It is so earthy, puzzling, primitive and violent.

There is a payoff seems imminent about the many the most puzzling.

When I first read the three constituent novels (this was before Waugh undertook the recension) I found them wayward and puzzling.

There were too many puzzling features like the robbed graves.

It is also a very British book (which makes its Stateside success all the more puzzling).

Temperamental sex differences can explain a pattern that is otherwise puzzling.

He also offers tidbit which helps to explain the somewhat puzzling title of the book.

It's my new favorite computer game when I want hours of puzzling fun.

Trozei! follows in the same puzzling tradition that brought us other Pokemon-themed puzzle games like Pokemon Puzzle League and Pokemon Puzzle Challenge.

Fitting somewhere between arcade fun and puzzling action is a fantastic colorful game Bounce Out.

It may seem puzzling that a mutated gene with such harmful consequences would remain so common; one might guess that the high mortality of CF would quickly lead to loss of the mutated gene from the population.

The puzzling phenomenon of pica has been recognized and described since ancient times.

Pause the video or go back a few seconds if a technique is puzzling to you.

Maybe you're puzzling over David Hasselhoff's appeal in a Speedo and why he's famous for wearing one.

Scrabble words have been puzzling generations who love the strategical word play that happens on the Scrabble board.

For many teens, the behavior of a teenager with Asperger's can be puzzling and sometimes irritating.

With all the media hype about healthy fat, trans fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol, it can be puzzling to understand which low fat foods are beneficial and which ones are best left untouched.

There have been several slip-ups from the American Idol camp, but one of the more puzzling came in season two of the popular talent-based show.

He said nothing, aware the creature before him wasn't capable of communicating a truth in a way most others could understand.  Death was from a time before time.  He would never understand what she saw when she looked out over humanity and saw its Past, Present, Future, and the soul of each human that ever lived.  The size of her vision rendered her unique interpretations puzzling, even to him.

He'd been holding her down when he put them on, puzzling her as to how he did put them on.

This history, as we now have it, is extracted from various sources of unequal value, which are fitted together in a way which offers considerable difficulties to the critic. In the history of David's early adventures, for example, the narrative is not seldom disordered, and sometimes seems to repeat itself with puzzling variations of detail, which have led critics to the unanimous conclusion that the First Book of Samuel is drawn from at least two sources.

Tiglath-Pileser III., a usurper who came to the throne of Assyria in 745 B.C., and whose earlier name of Pul proved a source of confusion to the later Hebrew writers, left records that have served to clear up the puzzling chronology of a considerable period of the history of Samaria.

Thus, puzzling as the fact appears, it is clear that the Minaeans formed a sort of political and linguistic island in the Sabaean country.

Giesbrecht, displacing the older name Ascomyzontidae, assigns to this family 21 genera in five subfamilies, and suggests that the long-known but still puzzling Nicothoe from the gills of the lobster might be placed in an additional subfamily, or be made the representative of a closely related family.

On the other hand, there are the curious and puzzling catalogues of Aristotelian books, one given by Diogenes Laertius, another by an anonymous commentator (perhaps Hesychius of Miletus) quoted in the notes of Gilles Menage on Diogenes Laertius, and known as " Anonymus Menagii," and a third copied by two Arabian writers from Ptolemy, perhaps King Ptolemy Philadelphus, son of the founder of the library at Alexandria.

His account of the origin of this conception is puzzling.

To the east of the dislocation of the Great Glen these puzzling rocks may also be met with, though in that tract most of the surface comprises sedimentary and igneous rocks, the metamorphism of which has varied much.

One of the most puzzling features in its structure, and, at the same time, one of the greatest obstacles to the view that it is essentially primitive and not merely a degenerate creature, is the entire absence of the paired organs of special sense, olfactory, optic and auditory, which are so characteristic of the higher vertebrates.

The existence of these two works explains the widely-spread taste for ornithology in England, which is to foreigners so puzzling, and the zeal - not always according to knowledge, but occasionally reaching to serious study - with which that taste is pursued.