PERPLEXED in a Sentence

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141 example sentences for PERPLEXED, such as:

1. The student looked at him, perplexed.
2. The disease has continued to perplex doctors.
3. I finally managed to disentangle myself from perplexity.
4. Berg and the countess looked at her, perplexed and frightened.
5. Prince Vasili stared at her and at Boris questioningly and perplexed.

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 Meanings and Examples of PERPLEXED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
perplexed
 a.  full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment
Classic Sentence: (133 in 9 pages)
1  Hence things which have perplexed you and made the case more obscure, have served to enlighten me and to strengthen my conclusions.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
2  "There must be some-thing else," said the perplexed gentleman.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
3  With a large allowance for difference of tastes, and with all submission to the patricians of Coketown, this seemed so extraordinary a source of interest to take so much trouble about, that it perplexed him.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII
4  The dog Flossie, standing on guard almost between her master's legs, moved uneasily, eyeing the chair with great suspicion and dislike, and very much perplexed between the three human beings.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
5  She had no child to connect her with life and happiness again, no relations to assist in the arrangement of perplexed affairs, no health to make all the rest supportable.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
6  After listening under the bank for some minutes to the talk he turned in a perplexed and doubting manner and began to withdraw as silently as he had come.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 8 Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody
7  "I am thoroughly perplexed," she said candidly.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: 2 Thomasin Walks in a Green Place by the Roman Road
8  In fact, I am, of course, he said, altogether perplexed as to her drift.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: 3 The Serious Discourse of Clym with His Cousin
9  Here we may take it that there is a love matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or grieved.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
10  She did not play cards, and was constantly laughing, which did not at all accord with her pale and perplexed face.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
11  Prince Vasili stared at her and at Boris questioningly and perplexed.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV
12  Pierre, perplexed, looked round with his shortsighted eyes without obeying, and suddenly doubts arose in his mind.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV
13  The uninterested and perplexed faces of the marshals showed that they were puzzled as to what Balashev's tone suggested.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VII
14  For some seconds they gazed with frightened eyes at one another's unfamiliar faces and both were perplexed at what they had done and what they were to do next.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXII
15  Berg and the countess looked at her, perplexed and frightened.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence:
1  The professor is never at a nonplus, and never perplexed by a problem.
2  The student looked at him, perplexed.
3  You puzzle me, Jane: your look and tone of sorrowful audacity perplex and pain me.
4  The disease has continued to perplex doctors.
5  In an ancillary capacity, Doctor Watson was helpful; however, Holmes could not trust the good doctor to solve a perplexing case on his own.
6  This paper will be perplexing to someone who knew nothing about its topic.
7  He sprang to his feet and shouted -- "I done it!" The school stared in perplexity at this incredible folly.
8  I finally managed to disentangle myself from perplexity.