How to Use puzzlement in a Sentence

puzzlement

noun

• The cause of the accident has been a source of puzzlement.
• The explanation only increased their puzzlement.
• There is puzzlement on both sides.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2026
• His wife likewise stared at me with a mix of puzzlement and shock on her face.
  — Douglas G. Adler, Discover Magazine, 22 Oct. 2019
• For lovers of his work, such puzzlement appears to be part of his appeal.
  — James Walton, The New York Review of Books, 20 Aug. 2020
• There’s puzzlement, and of course all these factors play into a sense of moral injury.
  — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Jan. 2025
• Fraser soon faded from prominence to the puzzlement of some fans.
  — Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2022
• My puzzlement is there’s no real story other than none of this happened.
  — Fenit Nirappil, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2018
• Trump’s fondness for Putin has long been clear, and also a subject of much puzzlement.
  — Kim Lane Scheppele, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
• Dorotea found the other acolytes and asked where her allies were, only to be met with not just silence, but puzzlement.
  — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 22 Dec. 2024
• His efforts are met with puzzlement by everyone but the children.
  — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2025
• And that makes the joy of the high notes merely a fleeting moment, followed by a more lasting sense of puzzlement.
  — Steven Oxman, Variety, 18 Nov. 2021
• And to causing progressives to furrow their brows in puzzlement.
  — George F. Will, The Denver Post, 7 Jan. 2017
• That’s where the Bears’ master plan for Fields creates a sense of puzzlement for the masses.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 17 Sep. 2021
• Among Chelsea’s peers and rivals, the reaction to the club’s spending spree on players has been one of puzzlement.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2023
• The ways things get named after people in this world are a source of endless fascination and sometimes puzzlement.
  — Justin Fox, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2017
• Foreign Office staffers described an atmosphere of puzzlement abroad and low morale at home.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
• That statement, which very likely caused puzzlement for all but the most deluded of Mets fans, might just turn out to be correct.
  — New York Times, 12 Aug. 2019
• Although missing Bertha’s Kitchen and the Glass Onion in the same town is a puzzlement.
  — Kathleen Purvis, charlotteobserver, 12 Feb. 2018
• The lack of engagement by Johnson’s team on the core issues has led to puzzlement about his strategy.
  — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
• The giant flag has been a thorn in the side of local officials and a source of puzzlement and anger to many residents and visitors.
  — Tamara Lush, OrlandoSentinel.com, 18 Aug. 2017
• More broadly, the broader public reacts to Trump with puzzlement and amusement.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 11 June 2018
• As such, anyone who took this type of interim role is going to be out of a job and possibly have something on their resume that will be a puzzlement.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• After this initial puzzlement, I got used to switching to Edit view quickly.
  — PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
• How Ward failed to deal with the bouncing ball as Gomes desperately lunged at it is another puzzlement.
  — Rob Tanner, The Athletic, 23 Dec. 2024
• These questions have led me, for more than half a century and well into the 21st, to contemplate an aging puzzlement.
  — Cynthia Ozick, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2022
• Inevitably more Daniel Cleavers followed, and each time I was left in a sort of stunned puzzlement at the way men behaved toward me.
  — Plum Sykes, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2024
• And in this world, women are shown to be subservient to men, much to the puzzlement of Barbie and the pleased astonishment of Ken.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 July 2023
• For them, Ningxia’s emergence as the Bordeaux of the East was a cause for excitement but also puzzlement.
  — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2013
• As for what Lin is walking into, Netflix’s structure has long been a source of Hollywood puzzlement.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Apr. 2024