Example Sentences

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Baffles stabilize water levels by creating a hidden exit for high water to escape through the dam, unnoticed by the beavers.

From Washington Post • Oct. 4, 2021

Baffles and other improvements, says Ordahl, have boosted combustion efficiency to 90% in some U.T.C. hybrids.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dr. Baffles once said: "I have made it a rule never to be with a person ten minutes without trying to make him happier."

From Cheerfulness as a Life Power by Marden, Orison Swett

I am the presence that ever Baffles your touch's endeavor,— Gone like the glimmer of dust    Dispersed by a gust.

From Dreams and Days: Poems by Lathrop, George Parsons

She had not far to search for a long black streamer ran across the front page—"Bat Baffles Police Again."

From The Bat by Hopwood, Avery