baffle

Example Sentences

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He empathizes with people born in the 1940s who feel irrelevant, since even 20-year-olds now baffle him.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2025

The question of how these two—a vulgar revolutionary and a soft-spoken, polite epitome of the GOP old guard—have stayed together for so long, with such limited drama between them, can baffle observers.

From Slate • Jan. 20, 2025

So the Queensferry Crossing was fitted with 3.5m-high baffle barriers to break up and deflect gusts of wind.

From BBC • Sep. 3, 2024

But it is just this demand—- the requirement that citizens find ways to navigate a social world which will, necessarily, often baffle and horrify them—- that liberal societies must impose.

From Salon • Sep. 9, 2023

The Blue’s Clues tester played the part of Steve, and walked the kids through the script, making a careful note of all the questions they answered correctly and those that seemed to baffle them.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell