I quickly asked if Dave wanted to order an Uber and leave like the rest of them but he said no. Perplexed, I offered him to crash on the couch or the guest room and proceeded to show him the guest room.
His own grandfather never once let him win? "No," he answered, looking perplexed.
When she handed a dime to the child with the cash box on his lap, she asked if there was another notebook she could buy, so that he would not have to give her any change; the boy looked perplexed and said no.
While the Incas spoke Quechua, they had no written alphabet, leaving perplexed archaeologists to wonder how they managed to assemble and run an empire without writing.
No one is more perplexed than their landlord, Cookie Bowman, who said that on the day of the theft, Mr. Dillon, Ms. Boyd and Ms. Gregory all helped tend to Ms. Bowman's mother, who had just fallen and broken her hip.
He seemed no better informed nor less perplexed by the turn of events in Iraq than I was.
And since Eliot's The Waste Land was launched on a perplexed literary world, no one can be sneery about poetic difficulty without some inner uneasiness.
Unveiled in May 2009, it was discontinued in August as perplexed users had no idea what to do with it.
And there were perplexed frowns, to put it no stronger, when she jumped into a boat and made a startling promise about future revelations to half a dozen British journalists during a holiday with the Al Fayeds.
Male peacocks thoroughly perplexed Darwin because he saw no selective advantage for some males to bear such long trains (the long tails with "eyes" for which peacocks are so well known).
"No, it's not about Charlotte's Web," he told his perplexed daughters, before moving on.
