Sentence examples for this perplexes me from inspiring English sources

This perplexes me; I live in three places and New York is one of them.

This perplexes me - why the hell would a young person work to make their own future worse?

This perplexed me.

This perplexed me, given the careful consideration that had apparently gone into the beanstalk as a means of escape.

I hypothesized that there would be such a thing as a "Fermi age/length" (not its value) when a teenager so I know that I am both very smart and very dumb but this one perplexes me.

This one perplexes me.

The fact that this statement isn't preceded by a hashtag perplexes me.

"That perplexes me," he said.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball tournament perplexes me every March.

"His face perplexes me," Miller said.

"Here's what perplexes me," O'Reilly began.