"puzzling choice" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It is used to describe a selection or decision that seems strange or hard to understand. Example: Her puzzling choice of outfit made everyone in the room stop and stare.
It proved a puzzling choice.
CNN, Mr Khurana recounts, called Mr Walter "a puzzling choice".
It seems a puzzling choice to include them, essentially unchanged, in a work of fiction.
By almost all accounts, Mr. Zakaria was a puzzling choice for president.
But the site is a puzzling choice: Chashama, a cavernous, semi-raw space in Midtown that works steadily against Mr. Barlow.
In one puzzling choice, though, the book provides weights and measures for medium-size eggs, not the large ones that most recipes require.
Similar puzzling choices regarding set changes and scene placement also work against the plot and drain it of much-needed tension.
He mingles them, sometimes freely, and makes a few puzzling choices — for instance, he uses the term "handmaid," derived from the King James, to describe the young woman whom Sarai offers up to sleep with her husband, Abram, after Sarai is unable to conceive, rather than Alter's term, "slave girl," which evokes the woman's subservient status.
The Word of the Year title is a triumph for milkshake duck, after it lost out to some extremely puzzling choices in December Oxford Dictionary's "Youthquake", and Australian National Dictionary's "Kwaussie".
Lièvremont's tenure as coach was marked by inconsistent and puzzling squad selection choices, and player discontent.
Mr. Trynka quotes the music writer Charles Shaar Murray, wonderfully, about Mr. Bowie's puzzling career choices during the '80s.
