be perplexed

Example Sentences

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Presidential scholars of the future will also be perplexed by the ordering of these photos.

From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2022

You may be perplexed, disturbed, exhilarated or all of the above.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2020

Nevertheless, neither should you be perplexed by a gnawing desire for a second season you may harbor.

From Salon • Aug. 28, 2019

No one at the palace gives a second thought to the striking workers they just undermined as they continue to be perplexed by the strange forces that are wreaking havoc on the economy.

From Slate • Dec. 4, 2018

Those who will resort to “ancient evidence exclusively” for the recension of the text may well be perplexed in dealing with this passage.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose