Sentence examples for perplexing turn from inspiring English sources

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That was a perplexing turn of events.

The first designer to ban me was Helmut Lang — a perplexing turn, I felt, since one of Mr. Lang's reasons for adopting New York as his home was that it is the news media center of the world.

On Wednesday night Amazon's Nasdaq share value closed down slightly, a perplexing turn of events that did little to reflect future demand for new Kindles signposted by the announcement, on Wednesday morning, of Tulisa Contostavlos's debut novel.

In fact, it wasn't until that moment, when my dreams of drunkenly conquering the dance floor took a perplexing turn that I even remembered they existed at all.

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Mr. Owens was alone only once, at the beginning of the encore, though what began as promising quickly turned perplexing.

Other items have simply been lost among the space's detritus, perplexing organizers when they turn up during a survey of inventory: a baby mannequin, a George Foreman grill, a board-game version of "The $25,000 Pyramid" ("based on the highly rated TV show," the box reads, beside a grinning Dick Clark).

Perplexed at the turn in his relationship with G.M., Mr. Evans said he reluctantly signed a release thinking that it covered only the specific consulting work he had done for the company and not his reverse-flow cooling system and took the money.

Many drivers sit perplexed, wondering whose turn it is to enter an intersection.

He's perplexed when Honey turns up her nose at the modelling job he managed to get for her.

To Korean greengrocers, the turn of fortunes must seem perplexing.

Halls went to see the Colorado Springs Sky Sox play and was perplexed when 5,000 spectators turned up to a game that featured two teams with no chance of winning of the league, earning promotion or suffering relegation.

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