Sentence examples for be puzzled when from inspiring English sources

The public is especially entitled to be puzzled when a former employee returns to their previous role at say a local authority as a contractor, charging a daily rate instead of receiving a salary.

But it's a restaurant that stays true to the conservative, honorable niche it's carved out, which is that of a contemporary American bistro where you won't have trouble spotting something appealing on the menu, and won't be puzzled when it arrives.

I don't think there's any "perhaps" about it, but readers may be puzzled when Vanni Fucci's obscene gesture to God, known at the time as "the figs", is still called "the figs" by James, although what James describes – "two fingers up from each [hand]" – is unmistakably a very Anglo-Saxon V-sign.

Nancy Curtis was puzzled when her son stopped writing.

She was puzzled when some were anguished that their mothers weren't home for holidays and family events.

Once in India, I was puzzled when my friend Sabrina started talking about "chumming".

Even Dr. Gregory House Hugh Lauriee) is puzzled when an overweight 10-year-old girl has a heart attack.

At the White House, Bush says he was "puzzled when McCain passed up the chance to speak".

His mother was puzzled when they finished eating and he ordered another hot dog.

But I had been puzzled when two people got up and left early in the performance.

I remember my parents' being puzzled when we cleaned out my grandparents' house and I took this piece of detritus.