Sentence examples for like puzzled from inspiring English sources

Those who knew him in the 1970's still speak of him a bit like puzzled neighbors describing a serial killer.

Appropriate to a novel that trades so assuredly in spiritual mysteries, "Under Radar" leaves us like puzzled pilgrims, struggling with the meaning of the cruel fable that has been so enticingly told.

The main effect I noticed was some confused pedestrians as I waited at lights – a couple stepped forwards and back over the laser image, like puzzled cats – and comedy double takes from fellow cyclists as the ethereal, floating bike appeared ahead of their front wheel, heralding my looming presence.

Like a puzzled parent they're asking, where did we go wrong?

Judge Posner even belittles the trial judge's writing, like a puzzled college professor might treat many of our barely literate Chicago public high school students.

"I made this movie for all those people who look at me like a puzzled dog," he said.

Staring back, I thought: There's nothing like the puzzled look of a child on public transport to tell you you're not passing.

Moore's book, psychologically deep yet racheting up foreboding like a thriller, puzzled reviewers, who were uncertain of whether to classify it as literary or genre fiction.

To make conversation she turned to him and inquired, "Do you like Monet?" The gentleman looked puzzled and restive, but nodded.

"They give me an amazingly puzzled look, like 'Why wouldn't I?' " said Brenda Jordan, Kendal's second nurse practitioner.

I might have to attend the hearing for the moment our daughter asks the poor puzzled clerk, "Like my shoes?