How to Use puzzling in a Sentence

puzzling

adjective

• The directions are somewhat puzzling.
• More puzzling is the metal loop on the side that can work with a strap.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 23 Oct. 2021
• The second flare is even more puzzling.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 Oct. 2025
• This is a little puzzling to think and see who’s gonna be the next great star.
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 11 July 2018
• The fact that the meek are to inherit the earth was a bit puzzling.
  — Glenna Christensen, idahostatesman, 14 June 2018
• Even more puzzling was that the signal kept going for nine days.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2024
• But for Democrats, the aversion may seem more puzzling.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harpers Magazine, 2 June 2026
• In the infield, perhaps the most puzzling hole has been third base.
  — Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 29 May 2025
• Maybe the most puzzling part of this trade is Chicago’s role in all of it.
  — James Mirtle, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
• What may be more puzzling is how to stop the white-ball team from crashing and burning.
  — Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
• That looks like a bargain now, yet seemed puzzling when the deal was made in the winter.
  — James Wagner, New York Times, 19 July 2019
• The economy is in a puzzling place.
  — Paul Wiseman, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
• More puzzling is the fact that a part of Venom stayed behind.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 4 Jan. 2022
• For one of the most puzzling races of them all, look to New Jersey.
  — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 2 June 2026
• The puzzling letters and anonymous gifts arrived a few times a year.
  — Jared Gilmour, miamiherald, 12 June 2018
• More puzzling to her is how the confrontation with police went down.
  — Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Feb. 2018
• More puzzling, this variant didn’t seem to affect women in the same way.
  — Sylvia Tara, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2017
• That's what made the pall cast over the Giants' opener all the more puzzling.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
• Here are five times what seemed like a harmless toy turned into a puzzling moment online.
  — Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2025
• Baseball is the only sport where the name is the answer to the game’s most puzzling questions.
  — Roy Bragg, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Feb. 2018
• Which made his flustered performance against the Chiefs all the more puzzling.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 2 Feb. 2024
• And perhaps the most puzzling question — why is Mark Wahlberg a movie star?
  — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
• There is so much discussed about the act of fleeing, but perhaps even more puzzling is the choice to remain.
  — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022
• And possibly the most puzzling.
  — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2026
• Even just one single vote elicits the most puzzling look on the guy’s face… and a sweet, sweet smile on Sol’s.
  — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 23 Oct. 2024
• Two weeks ago Tibesar’s defense gave up 39 points in a puzzling loss at Cal.
  — John Canzano, oregonlive, 8 Nov. 2021
• Six of those losses came at home, where the Sox are a puzzling 35-43.
  — Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2022
• All of this makes some of the recent pronouncements from China all the more puzzling.
  — Frank Lavin, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
• What is more puzzling to them is how SpaceX can make money with Starship.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2019
• All the more puzzling then is the mixed White House messaging on moving the bill.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 May 2022