“She looked perplexedly at the raw meat her waiter had set in front of her.”

“I stared perplexedly for a full minute before I rediscovered my wits and jumped in surprise.”

“Both of them stopped their quarrel suddenly and looked at me perplexedly.”

“These ambitious boomers, leading separate yet intertwined lives, still seem to love each other in a perplexingly modern marriage-in-progress.”

“Even after months of debate, the statement was vague and perplexingly non-committal on whether war would be justified.”

“But perplexingly, for most species, speckling patterns are often found to do a very poor job of helping eggs to blend in.”