How to Use baffling in a Sentence

baffling

adjective
  • 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
  • That’s what made Dec. 4 in Atlanta, frankly, so baffling.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, 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
  • Of all the baffling things that have happened over the last six months, few can compete with the short squeeze of GameStop’s stock at the end of January.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 22 June 2021
  • Since the baffling refusal was discovered, users have been trying to find ways to get the chatbot to say the name or explain who the mystery man is.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 2 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

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