Sentence examples for puzzled smile from inspiring English sources

Damon changes slowly: his attention skips a beat in the middle of a conversation; a puzzled smile overtakes his face.

If you know local variants of those questions you can keep offering them with a friendly, puzzled smile, and in the end your interlocutor will get out a pen and paper and draw you a cartoon strip in order to get the point across.Back to Bratislava, where the vibrant culture of young British manhood is enlivening the beautiful old town centre.

At the memorial service for his wife, dead of cancer, he turned to me before the service began and said, with a kindly though puzzled smile, "Well, James, I don't quite know what's up, but I guess it will all come clear".

This answer — which I thought was snappy, maybe even convincing — drew more puzzled smiles.

Harvey watched me go about my business with a puzzled half smile.

And there is no doubt that the book can be bewildering: you read large sections with a puzzled half-smile.

"Puzzled" puzzles her; she is puzzled by "puzzled".

In one of the more curious appeals to come before the UK's highest court, senior lawyers – wearing puzzled expressions, and bemused smiles but no wigs – ranged across centuries of legislation and a number of faiths to try to establish what religion is.

I would always give her a puzzled look and she would smile and say, "I can feel it in my bones".

"How many fingers do you have?" I looked at him for a second with a puzzled expression and then I smiled.

She smiled and gave me a puzzled look.