Sentence examples for perplexed by something from inspiring English sources

The animal in question is a female dachshund, with a sleek chestnut coat and a purposeful trot, plus the indefinable air that dachshunds have of being both highly perplexed by something (no breed has more expressive eyebrows) and determined to keep that something to themselves.

Besides, children may be perplexed by Adèle's macabre motivation, which has something to do with her sister having a hat-pin jammed in her skull.

They often seem perplexed by your arguments and explanations, which can become something of a problem.

I know they are somewhat perplexed by the entire set-up; in any case, we both have something else on our minds.

Instead, we're just perplexed by the fact that Bergman's sensitivity to women emerges from van Hove as something else — a shallowness, like that of Anne Sexton's poem "Divorce, Thy Name Is Woman," where it's all Daddy's fault.

When told that some observers are perplexed by the situation, Paterno said: "You don't expect me to do anything just because something is alleged.

After his meeting with Muslim leaders in Indonesia, Mr. Bush seemed particularly perplexed by their belief that the United States was uninterested in the creation of a Palestinian state, something the president has repeatedly said he supports.

She was perplexed by the question.

But evolutionists, too, were perplexed by them.

She is perplexed by autobiographical novelists.

Hashmi was perplexed by this analysis.