How to Use quandary in a Sentence

quandary

noun

• The unexpected results of the test have created a quandary for researchers.
• I'm in a quandary about whether I should try to repair my stereo or buy a new one, even though I don't have the money to do either.
• Now, Apple faces a quandary on what to do with the movie.
  — Nicole Sperling, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2022
• The scofflaw in the next seat has always presented a quandary.
  — New York Times, 5 July 2022
• Yet this difference in price leads us to a sticky quandary in the supply chain.
  — Errol Schweizer, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• Now the McNeils faced a similar quandary: what to tell their kids, ages 13, 8 and 6.
  — NBC News, 9 Jan. 2022
• Sarandon left the offices and the key players found themselves in a quandary.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Nov. 2022
• The competing plans for the rail line have put Queens leaders in something of a quandary.
  — Winnie Hu, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2022
• Biden would probably like to avoid this quandary with the 9/11 jihadists.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 16 Mar. 2022
• As the pressure to act mounts from both sides of the aisle, Biden faces a political quandary.
  — Ben Gittleson, ABC News, 7 Mar. 2022
• Wedding season is coming, and with it the eternal quandary of what to wear.
  — Town & Country, 23 Feb. 2023
• The result is an epic quandary of the oil addiction that runs the world economy.
  — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 31 Mar. 2022
• Avoid the daily quandary of what to post by planning content in advance.
  — Janine MacLachlan, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
• But what of Hungary’s neighbors which did not fall into this quandary?
  — Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• In the electric-vehicle business, the quandary is known as the nickel pickle.
  — Jon Emont, WSJ, 4 June 2023
• In any case, the artist seems too good-natured to be more upset than amused by the ethical quandaries.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 30 Apr. 2023
• How, when, and even whether these ideas escaped their academic homes is the real quandary.
  — Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2023
• Call it upheaval, call it disruption, call it a quandary, or call it a crisis.
  — Ann Kirschner, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
• The quandary, of course, is that managers do have to advocate for their own agenda, or at least, the agenda passed down by their boss.
  — Bruce Tulgan, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
• The details of China’s quandary are different than what the Krugman’s of the world expected.
  — William Pesek, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• Below, clothes, shoes, and accessories to simplify your next what to wear on a plane quandary.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Mar. 2022
• As travel picks up again this year, you could be faced with the quandary of how to handle an unruly traveler.
  — Erica Lamberg, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2022
• The scene crystallizes the film’s central quandary: What, in our society, should a Black writer be?
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 2023
• Such a correlation between lending rates and yield puts the central bank in a quandary.
  — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 13 May 2022
• In their own ways, Detective Rego and the task force are trying to work through this same fundamental quandary.
  — Frances Nguyen, The New Republic, 31 Jan. 2022
• And as with many parenting quandaries, there's not one right answer.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Mar. 2024
• Auburn’s quarterback quandary doesn’t appear to be of major concern to Eli Drinkwitz.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 20 Sep. 2022
• It can’t be left to companies to solve the quandary of public bathrooms, said Temple’s Simon.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 21 July 2022
• But not before Kiesau and Harsin sort out the Tigers’ ongoing quarterback quandary.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 20 Aug. 2022
• That quandary reflects an unavoidable crisis that looms for the country.
  — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024