Sentence examples for Be perplexed from inspiring English sources

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Be perplexed

verb

To cause to feel baffled; to puzzle.

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Cronin's title, "A Guide for the Perplexed," is ironic: "Why should we be perplexed?" Iain Sinclair asked earlier this month, in the Times Literary Supplement.

Regulators can also be perplexed.

"Do not be perplexed," he went on.

It's hard to not be perplexed.

If not, you will probably be perplexed, if pleasantly so.

Now, allowed in court, they continued to be perplexed.

The papermakers he met tended to be perplexed by his interest, but he persisted.

The president is reported to be perplexed by Lagardère's public display of affection.

Even Joyce would be perplexed by the appearance of a city he helped make famous.

I daresay many would be perplexed by the notion of euthanasia.

In truth, he is a manager who must be perplexed as to his own side's inconsistencies.

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