How to Use baffling in a Sentence

baffling

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• 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
• Much of his two-minute tirade was directed at one of the most baffling...
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2017
• 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
• That’s what made Dec. 4 in Atlanta, frankly, so baffling.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 6 Jan. 2022
• Why the Bucks didn’t inform the Magic or the league of their decision ahead of time is baffling.
  — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Aug. 2020
• Here is perhaps the most baffling fact in Bromham’s paper.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
• Why anyone would choose to do it for fun remains a bit baffling.
  — National Geographic, 4 Mar. 2019
• Then, sometime in the early 2010s, my misery came to an abrupt and baffling end.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2022
• To me, that as a fact, is baffling, and that’s why this story is so critical.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 16 Dec. 2022
• This context makes what happened next seem all the more baffling.
  — Ken Stier, miamiherald, 13 Sep. 2017
• It’s baffling and silly that the Switch still doesn’t have built-in Bluetooth support.
  — Washington Post, 6 July 2021
• For now, both men say they are trapped in a baffling legal limbo.
  — CBS News, 18 July 2021
• Here's some oh-so-pretty baffling news about the Oscars.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 21 Mar. 2022
• Making this even more baffling was the choice not to include Spider-Man himself in these spinoffs, and the choice not to pit any of the villains against one another either.
  — Mark Hughes, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
• Marcus Maye, who was claimed off waivers from the Miami Dolphins last week, grabbed an interception in the end zone in the fourth quarter, helping erase a baffling fake punt that went awry from the Chargers’ 36-yard line.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Jan 2025