Perplexed

//pɚˈplɛkst//

"Perplexed" in a Sentence (14 examples)

The problem perplexed him.

He was utterly perplexed.

He was perplexed at the unexpected result.

Her tears perplexed him.

He said with a perplexed expression, "I've heard nothing, so I can't say anything."

The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.

The situation left him perplexed.

I was truly perplexed.

He was perplexed.

What left me perplexed is that the answer was so simple and nobody could guess it.

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The scientists were perplexed by the new discovery.

She was perplexed. 'Plege'illegience is plege'illegience!'"

Perplexed, Wheeler continues to play for a moment or two, keeping to his own internal time. But after another moment it becomes clear that something is wrong, something which everybody can see but him. He steals a glance up from his instrument, and finds that Luján is staring at him. In fact, every musician in the orchestra is staring at him, all of them wearing the same expression of stony, barely-contained ang— They've been replaced.

"[…] But come, Lady, we are too near the mouth of the cavern; let us seek its inmost recesses. […]" "Though all your actions are noble, […] is it fitting that I should accompany you alone into these perplexed retreats? Should we be found together, what would a censorious world think of my conduct?"

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