How to Use head-scratcher in a Sentence

head-scratcher

noun

• For some of the testers, the Helios 3 Blackout was a bit of a head-scratcher.
  — Ryan Chelius, Field & Stream, 3 Aug. 2023
• The decision to leave Maye in the game for most of the fourth quarter was a head-scratcher.
  — Steve Buckley, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
• But in the funkiness of the bracket is a bevy of head-scratchers.
  — Tom Mulherin, Boston Herald, 1 Nov. 2024
• Suh’s early struggles were a head-scratcher to the golf world.
  — Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2023
• But Barone said the study’s findings are something of a head-scratcher.
  — Sarah Garone, Health, 15 Jan. 2025
• But the big head-scratcher for me in hindsight was David jumping for Phillip.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2025
• But the big head-scratcher for me in hindsight was David jumping for Phillip.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2025
• With this head-scratcher of a loss moving the Aztecs to 10-11 the last two seasons, what’s your answer?
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2023
• Khalil Mack was well, Khalil Mack and how the Raiders kicked him to the curb early in his career is still one of the all-time head-scratchers.
  — Jay Paris, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
• The biggest head-scratcher is the lack of one-pedal driving.
  — Roberto Baldwin, The Verge, 20 Mar. 2023
• What’s a deadline without a head-scratcher to shake things up?
  — Shayna Goldman, The Athletic, 6 Mar. 2025
• What’s a deadline without a head-scratcher to shake things up?
  — Shayna Goldman, The Athletic, 6 Mar. 2025
• The theme is a head-scratcher: who thinks of Klimt, with his gold leaf and gorgeous women, as a painter of nature?
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
• What’s more, a number of the bills seem well-intended, but are head-scratchers.
  — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• And this whole thing has just sort of devolved into something that's kind of a head-scratcher.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 28 Apr. 2023
• But Burrow couldn’t find the right plays to give his team the edge in the win, which has been a head-scratcher all season long for this Bengals squad.
  — Scott Thompson, Fox News, 18 Nov. 2024
• How the state would build a second prison after spending $1 billion on the first was a head-scratcher.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 28 Mar. 2023
• This whole thing has just sort of devolved into something that’s kind of a head-scratcher.
  — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2023
• Our sports writers tick off the big moves, head-scratchers and unanswered questions so far.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2025
• Our sports writers tick off the big moves, head-scratchers and unanswered questions so far.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2025
• That play, like so many for Minnesota, the West’s top team, was a head-scratcher — a slew of turnovers and fouls keeping the Lakers in the game into the fourth.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2023
• That can leave it feeling at times like a premise in search of the objects to suit it, with the occasional head-scratcher wedged in.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
• In the span of two minutes, Bay FC went from inches away from going up a goal to giving up a head-scratcher.
  — Compiled From Wire Reports, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2025
• Therein lies the biggest head-scratcher of how the Butler drama played out.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2025
• Strange laws are often head-scratchers in terms of trying to figure out why the law was created in the first place.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 22 Oct. 2024
• The results ranged from no-brainers to utter head-scratchers.
  — Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 7 Sep. 2023
• But many of those 10 state propositions are head-scratchers.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
• Oregon State had lost five straight games, most recently a 28-0 head-scratcher against Air Force.
  — Stewart Mandel, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
• One of the dumbest Marmol decisions in a career full of head-scratchers.
  — Katie Woo, New York Times, 20 June 2025
• All of this only makes its underseen status kind of a head-scratcher.
  — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2023