How to Use perplexing in a Sentence

perplexing

adjective

• The Who to me is very perplexing.
  — Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• The Who to me is very perplexing.
  — Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2025
• And that fact has been one of the most perplexing aspects of the disease.
  — cleveland, 1 Dec. 2022
• The shape of his struggles is at least a little perplexing.
  — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 14 June 2026
• But there are still some perplexing mysteries around how these plants came to be.
  — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2020
• Then the most perplexing thing in my short writing life happened.
  — The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023
• Even more perplexing were the duplicate room and board charges.
  — Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 31 July 2025
• The idea that some may be looking at this as a negative is perplexing, to say the least.
  — Zev Fima,kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2025
• These images are perplexing, thrilling—visual nuts to crack.
  — Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026
• What may be most perplexing for Texas is the offense that now seems stuck in second gear.
  — Dallas News, 15 Nov. 2022
• The charming little burg is plagued by a perplexing dead body problem.
  — Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 15 June 2026
• One of the more perplexing things about the Kings over the first half of the season has been their abysmal home record.
  — Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 2 Jan. 2025
• The oven was equally perplexing.
  — Jason Fried, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2026
• Voting on which judges to retain can be one of the more perplexing options on your ballot.
  — Kim Bojórquez, Axios, 28 Oct. 2024
• Still, the reasons for the recent lull are somewhat perplexing.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
• Few stories are as perplexing and tragic as that of Mary the elephant.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
• What might motivate Rozier to take part in such as scheme is perplexing.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
• Yet the latest season has had a perplexing schedule.
  — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
• None of those riptides are stronger—or more perplexing—than the combo of a go-go job market and soaring prices.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2022
• Fluffy, fruity, and the color of bubblegum, this salad is known by many, enjoyed by some, and perplexing to all.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 14 Nov. 2023
• The lack of basic safeguards on these hybrids is also perplexing.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
• The judging is vexing and perplexing.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2026
• There are perplexing plans and plot developments that could arguably rise to the level of plot holes.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
• On Saturday, a somewhat perplexing choice to reprise a full third of the songs was a harder sell.
  — Benjamin Stas, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2022
• Otherwise, the choice to have Levine strip and sing songs no one has cared about for 15 years was perplexing.
  — oregonlive, 6 Feb. 2023
• In the end, Blakey said, the forces that landed Madigan in his courtroom were perplexing.
  — Ray Long, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2025
• That makes the decision to pull back on that ice time in the second period and again in overtime all the more perplexing.
  — Vincent Z. Mercogliano, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2026
• Spencer Jones is one of the more perplexing prospects in recent baseball memory.
  — Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
• And, equally perplexing, why was the moon in America?
  — Kathryn Hughes, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
• The Dolphins have spent three years of a perplexing rebuild getting to an important game again.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2022