How to Use head-scratcher in a Sentence

head-scratcher

noun

• This one’s a head-scratcher all the same.
  — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2026
• Dressing for spring can be a bit of a head-scratcher.
  — Olivia Cigliano, InStyle, 7 Apr. 2026
• The jury’s still out on the first head-scratcher.
  — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 13 Aug. 2025
• Suh’s early struggles were a head-scratcher to the golf world.
  — Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2023
• What’s a deadline without a head-scratcher to shake things up?
  — Shayna Goldman, The Athletic, 6 Mar. 2025
• The gum on the pants, however, was a head-scratcher.
  — Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 22 May 2026
• But in the funkiness of the bracket is a bevy of head-scratchers.
  — Tom Mulherin, Boston Herald, 1 Nov. 2024
• But Barone said the study’s findings are something of a head-scratcher.
  — Sarah Garone, Health, 15 Jan. 2025
• This whole thing has just sort of devolved into something that’s kind of a head-scratcher.
  — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2023
• 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
• Our sports writers tick off the big moves, head-scratchers and unanswered questions so far.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2025
• But that’s not really such a head-scratcher in itself.
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 Feb. 2026
• What’s more, a number of the bills seem well-intended, but are head-scratchers.
  — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• The results ranged from no-brainers to utter head-scratchers.
  — Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 7 Sep. 2023
• But the manner in which MLB did so was a head-scratcher.
  — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 9 Oct. 2025
• Figuring out how to get rid of dandruff can be a real head-scratcher.
  — Hannah Yasharoff, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
• The season has been plagued by regular head-scratchers.
  — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 28 May 2026
• All of this only makes its underseen status kind of a head-scratcher.
  — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2023
• But the big head-scratcher for me in hindsight was David jumping for Phillip.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2025
• 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
• Why the pair chose to visit the Magic City isn’t too much of a head-scratcher.
  — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 17 Feb. 2026
• DMV‘s non-renewal is more of a head-scratcher.
  — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2026
• For some of the testers, the Helios 3 Blackout was a bit of a head-scratcher.
  — Ryan Chelius, Field & Stream, 3 Aug. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Therein lies the biggest head-scratcher of how the Butler drama played out.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2025
• That Mater Dei-Servite head-scratcher is one of a few anomalies in the rankings.
  — Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 16 Jan. 2026
• Such absences don’t detract from Lynskey’s achievement—they’re just head-scratchers.
  — Arthur Krystal, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
• 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
• But nothing from Kansas or K-State, and that’s been a head-scratcher for fans of those teams.
  — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2026