Sentence examples for baffled stare from inspiring English sources

Last year, an Australian news anchor who was interviewing the Dalai Lama with the aid of an interpreter opened the exchange with a joke: "The Dalai Lama walks into a pizza shop and says, 'Can you make me one with everything?' " His Holiness's baffled stare, viewed by nearly two million people on YouTube, presents a lesson in the risks of translating humor.

Hens clucked at our feet; sheep scampered away, then turned to fix us with baffled stares.

If you say, "Had I wanted to write about AIDS or the Palestinian problem I would have written a pamphlet," you tend to get baffled stares.

Owen tries to explain why everyone should be impressed with his new job but instead they give him condolences or baffled stares.

Looking dishevelled and faintly baffled, he would stare at a screen to ensure that no fool of a sub-editor had interfered with his subjunctives or his past participles.

There were two types of reactions: Those who simply stared and appeared baffled by the men in red outfits, and those who approached the Angels and shook their hands.

She stared at me, totally baffled.

The children stare up at her, completely baffled.

In delis, he'd stare at the cases of juice, baffled by unfamiliar flavors like mango and tangerine, unable to choose.

Baffled: You can make this question go away in no words (death stare); one word ("Really?"); two words ("Genetic quirks"); or the smartassery of your choice.

When I try to explain to my baffled new friends that, well, some Americans feel safer with guns, I get blank stares.