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Examples of puzzlement in a Sentence
The cause of the accident has been a source of puzzlement.
The explanation only increased their puzzlement.
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Barbara’s face cracked in puzzlement, as if her ability to make the sale hinged on her ability to answer this question; her siren-red lower lip jutted, a vein shivered on her forehead.
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Joshua Cohen, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
But puzzlement quickly shades into pleasure across the album’s sparse but unsparing 23 minutes: Ominous lyrics about scammers, guns, and LSD are brightened by some of Blunt’s poppiest compositions, full of swelling strings and jangling guitars.
—Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
Megalopolis has been an object of curiosity, passion and puzzlement across the film and cultural landscape, first surfacing as a finished work nearly two months before its world premiere in Cannes.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2024
The Afghans observed these developments at first with puzzlement, then with frustration, and ultimately with anger.
—Karl W. Eikenberry, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2013
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Joshua Cohen, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
But puzzlement quickly shades into pleasure across the album’s sparse but unsparing 23 minutes: Ominous lyrics about scammers, guns, and LSD are brightened by some of Blunt’s poppiest compositions, full of swelling strings and jangling guitars.
—Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
Megalopolis has been an object of curiosity, passion and puzzlement across the film and cultural landscape, first surfacing as a finished work nearly two months before its world premiere in Cannes.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2024
The Afghans observed these developments at first with puzzlement, then with frustration, and ultimately with anger.
—Karl W. Eikenberry, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2013
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“Puzzlement.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/puzzlement. Accessed 30 Oct. 2024.
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puzzlement
noun
puz·zle·ment
ˈpəz-əl-mənt 
1
: the state of being puzzled
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