puzzlement

How To Use puzzlement In A Sentence

• He disappeared without explanation, to much puzzlement. Times, Sunday Times
• As he wove in and out of the knotted trunks Nick heard the ping, ping around him with a moment's puzzlement. THE WHITE DOVE
• In the guest categories, lots of Saturday Night Live guest hosts, including double-dipper Tina Fey and Justin Timberlake, and Glee headliners like Kristin Chenoweth and Gwyneth Paltrow, but the real puzzlement is Raising Hope's Cloris Leachman, who was a regular cast member in everything but actual billing. Critic's Notebook: The Emmy Nominations
• The girl who once called herself Jill Blando always harboured a sense of puzzlement that people found her clever, talented and beautiful.
• She's full of stories and takes the mickey out of herself with a nice combination of faux puzzlement and sarcasm. Times, Sunday Times
• Most foreign observers might be forgiven for a little puzzlement at all the fuss.
• He reminded me of Reese Witherspoons dad in the Blonde flick, who is standing by the pool with his martini glass and asks her with bored puzzlement in his voice, as she floats in the pool with her hotpink sequined bikini, 'whyever would you want to go to law school Elle, that is for boring folks who want to work, not us .... CT-SEN: Lieberman Ahead In New Poll
• Another potential application of work on categories lies in the idea that various mistakes and puzzlements in ontology can be traced to the mistaken belief that category-neutral existential and quantificational claims are truth-evaluable (see Thomasson 2007). Categories
• Bessey encountered a spectrum of incomprehension, scorn, puzzlement and good will.
• In puzzlement she watched as Vandune passed through a niche in the amphitheater wall and disappeared into an alcove. MAJIPOOR CHRONICLES