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How to use perplexed in a sentence

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I just stared at him mouth open, perplexed and maybe even slightly flustered by his strange double-talk.
Many students have xeroxed booklets of Jody calls and brought them in, thrilled to have perplexed their fellow workers.
The ravers danced, the normals tapped their feet and the rockers looked a little perplexed.
North Dakotans sees a channel to the Red River as a natural remedy for the problem and are perplexed that Manitoba would object.
I spotted my friends at our usual table with perplexed expressions upon their faces.
They rushed outside to meet with their comrades who were also perplexed by their findings.
So when I found myself sitting astride a large horse at 11 am last Saturday I was a little perplexed to say the least.
Still panting, Ermo slowly removes her babushka and the many layers of her winter clothing, as a perplexed Xiazi looks on passively.
And the show went on and the private eye finally solved the murder, leaving televiewers a little perplexed.
When they come tell you about, act grossed out and perplexed, then go in and pick it up barehanded.
Puzzled and perplexed by all this, I went a bit further into the material to hand.
The man upstairs's painted as a lonely misfit who's as perplexed by his role as everyone else.
They sat there with expressions perplexed, paranoid, perturbed, patently unamused.
Almost all find writing slash utterly natural, with some seeming slightly perplexed at being asked why they do it.
We perplexed everyone around us by walking up the unfrequented road the quarter mile or so to the museum.
It is no wonder the protean character of the enlightener has perplexed mythologers, for he is a perpetual paradox.
As secular identity becomes enervated, incoherent, and perplexed, as we grow tired and unstrung by self-doubt, hating them offers odd comfort.
Critics were perplexed by this seemingly perfect specimen, and swiftly termed her bland and banal.
Audiences, on the other hand, seem perplexed that their response differs so markedly to those reflected in the film's notices.
Our failure to look at ourselves in the mirror is the tragedy future historians will be perplexed to read about.
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Examples from Classical Literature
With such shifting, grotesque and inadequate fables, the cosmogonic myths of the world are necessarily bewildered and perplexed.
My handiness with the ropes, when I volunteered to help in hoisting sail, surprised and even perplexed him.
The cub reporter was a trifle perplexed by this talking over him and around him and at him.
Not a little perplexed was Cynthia at the topsy-turvydom in which that morning she had found her father's house.
And must not the soul be perplexed at this intimation which the sense gives of a hard which is also soft?
Master Headley did not like the alternative at all, and was a good deal perplexed.
The master seemed perplexed, for doddle was gazing at him with a look of mild self-satisfaction.
Washington was sorely perplexed by the controversy and was on the point of vetoing the Bank Bill.
Callista examined this, perplexed, trying to recall what form of the auxiliary verb her thought had used.
They have always perplexed entomologists, who seem to consider them as parasites allied to acarid and lice.
This magnetic declination sorely perplexed Gilbert, as it did not fit in with his theory.
Thus perplexed, Fox Talbot hesitated in 1826 to enounce this fundamental principle.
His countenance, too, might have perplexed a fortune-teller.
Shirley watched the perplexed officers as they went into the front office.
Civic bred and nurtured as they were, the recurrence of these sensations perplexed and alarmed them.
The men holding the hatch-cover seemed perplexed, puzzled no doubt by the briefness of the ceremony.
Her Armand was disproportionately young and slight, a handsome youth, perplexed in the extreme.
Craven, more perplexed than ever and glancing sideways at Mistress Mary sitting on her stool and looking down silently at the carpet.
Even her father and mother had asked themselves those questions, as she grew up to girlhood, and had been sorely perplexed to answer them.
He was perplexed at no intricacy, he was daunted at no obstacle.
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