Sentence examples for were puzzling from inspiring English sources

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were puzzling

verb

To perplex (someone).

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The results were puzzling.

These later years were puzzling.

Some of Gillett's utterances were puzzling.

Analysts said Trump's actions were puzzling.

Some were puzzling out of context.

The figures were puzzling as well as perturbing.

Gilpin said the vortices were puzzling because they seemed to make no evolutionary sense.

But tops never seemed to go with bottoms, and dresses and outerwear were puzzling, too.

They were puzzling yet clearly ironic, prefiguring many books by today's conceptual artists.

Even the victims, Detective Grady said, were puzzling: college graduates with no criminal records.

And there were matters of social interaction that were puzzling — a cocktail party.

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