I'm somewhat puzzled

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

"I'm somewhat puzzled as to why they are delaying it till the 2009 meeting, but it certainly is a step in the right direction," Mr. Jones said.

I am somewhat puzzled by the absence of "why" questions in the presidential campaign.

"I was somewhat puzzled by the apparent outrage that some folks in the US were expressing over Abu Ghraib," said Stauring quietly.

I spent a full day in various IQ and psycho tests, and the examiners were somewhat puzzled by the results, which portrayed me as someone with a genuine interest and some competence in both the scientific and literary areas.

Mr. Kramer remained unfazed by the furor his criticism aroused and professed to be somewhat puzzled at his reputation.

Some real estate brokers in New York, the most expensive market in the country, were somewhat puzzled by the uproar.

On further consideration, however, writer was somewhat puzzled by the 1300 trillion tons of dust said to have been thrown up by the asteroid.

Miss Sotomayor shared those aspirations by the time she graduated from Blessed Sacrament, even if her eighth-grade teacher Sister Mary Regina was somewhat puzzled.

Although Mr. Nantel, a former broadcaster who briefly worked at Radio-Canada, said it was important to keep the network at arm's length from politicians, he added that he was somewhat puzzled by the rebranding.

After three years of computers permeating every area of their schooling, Mooresville students barely remember life before the transformation and are somewhat puzzled by the gaggle of visitors who watch them every month.

Both Mr. Shvydkoi and Dr. Mikhail B. Piotrovsky, director of the State Hermitage Museum, said they were somewhat puzzled by the criticism both here and at home that a Las Vegas location was somehow beneath the dignity of a museum started by Catherine the Great.