How to Use baffling in a Sentence

baffling

adjective
  • Here is perhaps the most baffling fact in Bromham’s paper.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
  • That was another baffling loss in a season that has already been full of them for the Tide.
    AL.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • And don’t @ me if these are all wrong, because the Recording Academy is a baffling voting body in itself.
    Matt Miller, Esquire, 12 Jan. 2018
  • The country’s envoy is, like most things North Korea, a baffling and polarizing entree to the games.
    Nick Pachelli, Esquire, 8 Feb. 2018
  • To help appreciate their work, Chron.com put together a list of the dumbest and most baffling fake new stories the fact-checking site had to set straight.
    Fernando Ramirez, Houston Chronicle, 22 Dec. 2017
  • The baffling business of reviving old labels continues.
    Cathy Horyn, The Cut, 12 Feb. 2018
  • The ad is especially baffling because the NRA has precious little to be angry about right now.
    Luke Darby, GQ, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Walker’s campaign, however, was plagued by controversies and baffling and false statements.
    Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Outside shareholders have no vote at Blackstone, and its accounting is as baffling as Kanye West or the works of Hegel.
    The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Also, because of a baffling decision by the NBA, the order in which players are selected will not be made public.
    Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • That scenario’s baffling, says Miller, because the VP is adopting almost all the ingredients for success.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Those choices seem even more baffling and distasteful after watching this documentary, which shows the real Lyle breaking down with shame on the witness stand over his abuse of Erik.
    Jen Chaney, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2024
  • What’s so baffling is that the Patriots, who are better than any team at shuffling personnel to find the best matchups, left themselves with three glaringly bad matchups by benching Butler.
    Andy Benoit, SI.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • To still have the queen as the head of state, in this day and age, is baffling to me.
    Omid Scobie, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Which makes his praise of Arpaio all the more baffling.
    Chris Cillizza, CNN, 2 May 2018
  • Long Covid is one of the most baffling effects of Covid-19.
    Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2021
  • But the most baffling plot point on the show right now has nothing to do with any of this.
    Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 31 Oct. 2018
  • Here were the best, worst and most baffling moments of the 2020 Golden Globes.
    Time, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Again, the Spider-Women part of this is the most baffling.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
  • The fact that the Pixel 4 didn't launch with this feature is kind of baffling.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 7 Apr. 2020
  • That’s why the tweet sent out by the account Tuesday night at 6:02 p.m. is so baffling.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Kaepernick’s year-plus-long quest to find work is both baffling and not.
    Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 5 Apr. 2018
  • The chance to grab Lauri Markkanen with the No.7 overall pick was the big splash for the Bulls — along with a baffling pick swap.
    Jamal Collier, chicagotribune.com, 7 Mar. 2021
  • The assortment of microbes found in the glacier is baffling, too.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 4 July 2022
  • What is less baffling to Kukull is what would happen next.
    Annie Sweeney, chicagotribune.com, 23 Sep. 2021
  • So ending up rooting for the same side is a bit baffling.
    Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The stopgap vote was a baffling setback for the speaker.
    Hans Nichols, Axios, 20 Sep. 2024
  • How juice impacts the body For some, the concern over 100% fruit juice may be baffling — fruit is healthy, right?
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The baffling version is one most visible right on the surface of the show.
    Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2021
  • How Sony didn’t see this being a problem is baffling to me.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 6 Sep. 2021

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