toggle menu
menu
vocabulary
1000+ books

baffle
in a sentence
grouped by contextual meaning

show 10 more with this conextual meaning
  • Doctors are baffled by her symptoms.
  • Then she'd smile—not a soothing smile for someone else but a smile for herself, of baffled amusement, a smile that to me always seemed to say, Ain't nothin' funnier than real life, I tell you what.   (source)
    baffled = confused
  • Dr. David was also baffled why they weren't coming.   (source)
    baffled = unable to understand
  • When he spoke again, he sounded as baffled as he looked.   (source)
    baffled = completely confused
  • Many aspects of Chris's personality baffled his parents.   (source)
  • "Whas moo g-goo g-gipn?" Chris asked, baffled by the strange words on the menu.   (source)
    baffled = confused
  • No wonder his father had been so baffled by him.   (source)
    baffled = completely confused
  • His memory loss was baffling in its complexity.   (source)
    baffling = completely confusing
  • I was still baffled by it all.   (source)
    baffled = completely confused
  • I look at him, still baffled.   (source)
▲ show less (of above)
show 73 more with this conextual meaning
  • The sixth grade seemed to please him from the beginning: he went through a brief Egyptian Period that baffled me— he tried to walk flat a great deal, sticking one arm in front of him and one in back of him, putting one foot behind the other.   (source)
  • In the baffled silence I began to uncoil slowly.   (source)
    baffled = confused
  •   "'Tis no use, William," she repeated.
      At the door he turned and looked back, his face baffled and unhappy.   (source)
    baffled = at a loss as to what to do
  • They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.   (source)
    baffled = completely confused
  • MRS. PUTNAM: Rebecca, the doctor's baffled!   (source)
    baffled = unable to understand the situation
  • — we all talked at once to a baffled clerk and thought, or pretended to think, that we were being very funny ….   (source)
    baffled = confused
  • If he chooses to lie hidden, he may baffle us for years.   (source)
    baffle = confound or defeat (by taking clever action)
  • Heart-smitten at this bewildering and baffling spell, that so often came between herself and her sole treasure, whom she had bought so dear, and who was all her world, Hester sometimes burst into passionate tears.   (source)
    baffling = completely confusing
  • But I was baffled in every attempt I made for this purpose.   (source)
    baffled = confused
  • In reality it was also bafflement, and later, fear.†   (source)
  • It was Reynie who noticed this — that Constance, with a look of anxious bafflement, had begun to crouch down as if to protect herself from an attack.†   (source)
  • "Bafflement," I said.†   (source)
  • Nettle, his front teeth resting on his lower lip in a look of kindly rodent bafflement, let him finish and said, "I knew it.†   (source)
  • Asian children, by contrast, don't feel nearly that same bafflement.†   (source)
  • Arthur looked backward and forward between them in bafflement.†   (source)
  • The trouble was that there really was no end to the quotidian details of upper-class American life bafflingly new to Michael Oher.†   (source)
  • …so from her sister, and perhaps most of all from Nadia herself, such that Nadia and her family both considered her thereafter to be without a family, something all of them, all four, for the rest of their lives, regretted, but which none of them would ever act to repair, partly out of stubbornness, partly out of bafflement at how to go about doing so, and partly because the impending descent of their city into the abyss would come before they realized that they had lost the chance.†   (source)
  • At the very last moment, standing directly before him, she whispered in bafflement and rage, "What are you trying to do to me?"†   (source)
  • There are simply hundreds of disheveled men staring in bafflement at the pitched tents of another circus.†   (source)
  • To Carla's bafflement, those cars had names beyond the names of their color or size.†   (source)
  • He stared at her in obvious bafflement.†   (source)
  • To Jace's bafflement, Valentine touched the side of Sebastian's face, a quick, undisguisedly affectionate gesture, before turning away and moving toward the far end of the cavern, where thick clots of shadows gathered.†   (source)
  • But then, bafflement was pretty typical where I was concerned.†   (source)
  • I shook my head in bafflement.†   (source)
  • He caught bafflement, discomfort and, he thought, a trace of embarrassment in her eyes as he brushed a light kiss over her knuckles.†   (source)
  • The day's developments had led to nothing but bafflement.†   (source)
  • Denny glanced toward his seatmate, half expecting to exchange a look of bafflement, but to his horror, he discovered that the boy was crying.†   (source)
  • Frederic looked at him a moment in bafflement, then realized what was expected and tucked the amulet into his shirt.†   (source)
  • The heat hung close and sticky in the hallway; it was heat unreasonably intense even for the summer evening—adding bafflement to the chagrin with which I was already overwhelmed—and for an instant I thought there must be a conflagration lurking behind the pink walls until I suddenly spied Morris Fink crouched in one corner, laboring over a steaming radiator.†   (source)
  • She is flanked by the other two, in a litter of paper-doll cutouts, and while they speak HELEN'S hands thrust at their faces in turn, feeling baffledly at the movements of their lips.†   (source)
  • It was that, the bafflement that came of talking with a man without visible emotions, that urged Clumly on.†   (source)
  • Minho squinched up his eyes and pulled his head back, as if he were baffled by Newt's question.   (source)
    baffled = completely confused
  • He was shocked and baffled by the mindless destruction that greeted him.   (source)
    baffled = confused
  • He was completely baffled by what Gaily was saying.   (source)
    baffled = completely confused
  • Newt looked completely baffled and finally broke the silence.   (source)
  • Under the yellow study lights we read our Hardy assignments; I was halfway through Tess of the d'Urbervilles, he carried on his baffled struggle with Far from the Madding Crowd, amused that there should be people named Gabriel Oak and Bathsheba Everdene.   (source)
    baffled = confused
  • DANFORTH: You baffle me, sir.   (source)
    baffle = confuse
  • He was relieved but baffled.   (source)
    baffled = unable to understand
  • This time, however, he was baffled; he knew as well as she that there were no garments to spare in that house.   (source)
    baffled = at a loss as to what to do
  • Baffled by the word "court," the lawyer set the envelope on the desk and found his way out of Sunset Towers.   (source)
    baffled = confused
  • There was the brilliant world of hunting, tactics, fierce exhilaration, skill; and there was the world of longing and baffled commonsense.   (source)
  • There is much about Chris that still baffles him and always will, but now he is a little less baffled.   (source)
  • Turtle turned to her baffled audience.   (source)
  • He is baffled by this.   (source)
    baffled = unable to understand
  • There is much about Chris that still baffles him and always will, but now he is a little less baffled.   (source)
    baffles = confuses
  • Thomas was baffled by this girl—first the connection he'd felt to her from the very beginning, then the mind-speaking, now this.   (source)
    baffled = completely confused
  • I came to understand that I had baffled and infuriated my father at least as much as he had baffled and infuriated me.   (source)
  • Once again his memory wipe baffled him.   (source)
  • You think to baffle me, you with your pale faces all in a row, like sheep in a butcher's.   (source)
    baffle = confound (prevent success by taking clever action)
  • Every window and door was fastened and locked, and I returned baffled to the porch.   (source)
    baffled = unable to understand
  • But I shall baffle this fiend or monster, for I shall tie my hands to the wheel when my strength begins to fail, and along with them I shall tie that which He, It, dare not touch.   (source)
    baffle = confound (prevent success by taking clever action)
  • I prepared myself for a multitude of reverses; my operations might be incessantly baffled, and at last my work be imperfect, yet when I considered the improvement which every day takes place in science and mechanics, I was encouraged to hope my present attempts would at least lay the foundations of future success.   (source)
    baffled = confused
  • That was the general drift of public commentary from NFL insiders: bafflement.†   (source)
  • The Angel's obvious bafflement emboldened Simon.†   (source)
  • In answer to Clumly's look of bafflement he merely shrugged.†   (source)
  • Because his unexpected absence from the head of the line had a bearing on the day's outcome, his decision to short-rope Pittman provoked criticism and bafflement after the fact.†   (source)
  • Bafflement…. good word.†   (source)
  • Sarah stared at him in bafflement.†   (source)
  • It wasn't fatigue so much as bafflement that assaulted Eve when she stepped into Roarke's shower in the early hours of the morning.†   (source)
  • And he stared at Eric with a bright, suspicious bafflement; as though he were thinking, I am willing to play all games, my friend, but what are the rules of this one? and what are the penalties?†   (source)
  • With Florence gone, his stammering time, his playing time, contracted with a bound to the sparest interrogative second, when he must stiffen himself, and answer to his mother, and all the host of Heaven, yes or no. Florence smiled inwardly a small, malicious smile, watching his slow bafflement, and panic, and rage; and she looked at her mother again.†   (source)
  • Neither could I endure the reality of her despair, her unstated bafflement as to what had happened to her brother's life, and her own.†   (source)
  • Thus began the remarkable dialogue Batavia Chief of Police Fred Clumly would play over and over later, with confused feelings of bafflement and rage and sorrow.†   (source)
  • And join the conspiracy, from bafflement: yes: we're the world, there's no denying it: we're old: and whatever it is that the world has done to them, it was us, we did it, whatever it was.†   (source)
  • He knew very well how absurd he must look, oh yes, yes, he understood their bafflement--the Chief of Police standing there weeping, crying his heart out, for a man he'd been hunting Like a wild animal for days and days and days.†   (source)
  • With a great cry of rage and bafflement Eugene tried to free himself.†   (source)
  • What most observers failed to perceive in him was something quite bafflingly simple--a love of quietness, contemplation, and being alone.†   (source)
  • He just walked on, erect, with the new hat cocked and carrying in his hand now that which must have seemed to them the final gratuitous bafflement and even insult, with the committee riding along in the street beside him and not quite parallel, and others who did not happen to have horses at the moment joining in and following the committee in the road, and ladies and children and women slaves coming to the doors and windows of the homes as they passed to watch as they went on in grim…†   (source)
  • Then the bafflement too flowed away.†   (source)
  • …wrinkle to show—the same smooth, almost girlish face on the pillow (though Miss Rosa now discovered that Ellen had been dyeing her hair evidently for years), the same almost plump soft (though now unringed) hands on the coverlet, and only the bafflement in the dark uncomprehending eyes to indicate anything of present life by which to postulate approaching death as she asked the seventeen-year-old sister (Henry up to now was just vanished, his birthright voluntarily repudiated; he had…†   (source)
  • I came here where faces full of bafflement and hunger and eagerness waited for me, waiting to believe; I did not see them.†   (source)
  • He felt, rather than understood, the waste, the confusion, the blind cruelty of their lives—his spirit was stretched out on the rack of despair and bafflement as there came to him more and more the conviction that their lives could not be more hopelessly distorted, wrenched, mutilated, and perverted away from all simple comfort, repose, happiness, if they set themselves deliberately to tangle the skein, twist the pattern.†   (source)
  • I looked down in bafflement at the wooden platter before me, empty but for a smear of grease and a forlorn boiled onion.†   (source)
▲ show less (of above)
show 2 more with this conextual meaning
  • From here it goes into the baffle tank, then over to the warming pan, and finally into the settling tank.   (source)
    baffle = something constructed to control the flow of fluid
  • Sugar-Girl nudged Otis with her elbow, and he stepped up and helped them get her situated between the extractor and the baffle tank.   (source)
▲ show less (of above)
show 10 more examples with any meaning
  • Poor Myra was baffled, as she always is by theological discourse.†   (source)
  • Claude's gift—if that's what it could be called—was all the more baffling for its effortlessness.†   (source)
  • I was baffled, too.†   (source)
  • Lilian asked, baffled.†   (source)
  • The ecosystem on this lifeboat was decidedly baffling.†   (source)
  • Sophie looked baffled in the glow of the message scrawled across the Mona Lisa's face.†   (source)
  • I tried to smile to diffuse the situation but I was completely baffled.†   (source)
  • Every day Bod would take his paper and crayons into the graveyard and he would copy names and words and numbers as best he could, and each night, before Silas would go off into the world, Bod would make Silas explain to him what he had written, and make him translate the snatches of Latin which had, for the most part, baffled the Owenses.†   (source)
  • Rasheed kept bringing home news of the war, and Laila was baffled by the allegiances that Rasheed tried to explain to her.†   (source)
  • How Minho could be so lighthearted at times like this just baffled Thomas.†   (source)
▲ show less (of above)
show 190 more examples with any meaning
  • Here, he felt as baffled as Alice in Wonderland from one of the old books in the attic.†   (source)
  • "Look at this one: 'CURTAIN BEST MAN TO HANDLE BAFFLING AMNESIA EPIDEMIC."†   (source)
  • She was baffled.†   (source)
  • It is truly baffling that we were ever friends.†   (source)
  • The police are baffled, you see.†   (source)
  • He looked baffled, so I volunteered enough details to explain my past.†   (source)
  • She managed a weak smile, a bit baffled by his sudden charm.†   (source)
  • Throughout my stay, I was baffled by the food.†   (source)
  • And so, in 1954, my excitement over the new television at 80 Front Street was tempered by the baffling love of my grandmother and Owen Meany for Liberace.†   (source)
  • I sit, baffled, in the dark living room of our house in Baden, loaded rifle against my belly, cocooning a cosmos.†   (source)
  • Baffling.†   (source)
  • If this girl has so fully misunderstood or been so wholly baffled by the strange little scene that has unfolded before her, how might it affect the lives of the two adults?†   (source)
  • After bringing the RTG into the Hab, I very carefully glued some tubing around the heat baffles.†   (source)
  • " 'Doctors were at first baffled by the disease, which they report is extremely rare and generally attacks children between the ages of ten and twenty, months to years after they have contracted the measles virus,' " read my father.†   (source)
  • He stared at them, baffled.†   (source)
  • "Not at all," his father says eventually, one hand going to his ribs, a habitual gesture that has baffled Gogol until now.†   (source)
  • Stark shot a baffled look at Yoren.†   (source)
  • I'm baffled.†   (source)
  • Slightly baffled.†   (source)
  • Cinder shrank against the cabinet, more baffled by the second.†   (source)
  • The paddle moved rhythmically, causing baffles that rocked the boat ever so slightly.†   (source)
  • Whatever it was they were supposed to read there baffled the women and they murmured together.†   (source)
  • "You know, the doctors are baffled," he said.†   (source)
  • I was baffled.†   (source)
  • A baffling ailment, HACE occurs when fluid leaks from oxygen-starved cerebral blood vessels, causing severe swelling of the brain, and it can strike with little or no warning.†   (source)
  • I'm completely baffled by Alex's behavior.†   (source)
  • I was completely baffled.†   (source)
  • Their destination was nearby, but Eragon took a circuitous route in an effort to baffle any pursuers.†   (source)
  • The boys are baffled and shove each other more noisily.†   (source)
  • But, granted all this, there must have been times in the four-hundred-year history of this baffling group when disease swept the village, when more than the usual number of vines gave way and dropped citizens into the Cleft, or when something caused that abnormal cluster of sudden deaths that insurance companies have dreaded since time immemorial.†   (source)
  • Sean: Ma'am, I hate that it baffles you.†   (source)
  • Then they got into gear and raced out there, I guess to try and show me, I stood outside and watched them go, still a bit baffled.†   (source)
  • Mae was baffled, and found her mood sinking into the same sort of abyss in which she'd spent the last few years.†   (source)
  • The days in Vught were a baffling mixture of good and bad.†   (source)
  • "Ah, thank you, Paolo," Chiron said, clearly baffled.†   (source)
  • Paul made a wounded, baffled noise, lowered his hand, and then leaned back, panting.†   (source)
  • Still, his attention baffled me.†   (source)
  • I hissed at the others for silence and they swivel ed their heads in my direction, baffled and annoyed.†   (source)
  • For a moment Meggie almost felt sorry for him — he looked so sleepy and baffled.†   (source)
  • Then they stun themselves against clear windowpanes and die, fatly baffled in the sun.†   (source)
  • Jace looked baffled.†   (source)
  • I was naturally a little surprised by this, but then quickly saw the situation for what it was; that is to say, it was clearly expected that I be baffled by the question.†   (source)
  • The boy simply stood there, baffled, with his mouth open, unable to utter a sound.†   (source)
  • And when I brought it up with Tom calmly, matter-offactly-he was just as baffled as I was.†   (source)
  • The thought baffled me.†   (source)
  • Their few meetings had left them both baffled.†   (source)
  • Paul slipped out his nose plugs, swung the mouth baffle aside.†   (source)
  • It still baffles doctors why the inflammation remains in one hemisphere of the brain and doesn't spread to the other side.†   (source)
  • I wondered — while Rosalie sat silent for a moment — if my world seemed as baffling to him as Rosalie's did to me?†   (source)
  • Conservatives were baffled.†   (source)
  • Baffled, I told him.†   (source)
  • She was the only one of the old woman's descendants who did this, and the old woman adored her, and also sometimes felt baffled by her: looking at her granddaughter she thought she saw what she would have looked like had she been born in China, for the granddaughter had features of the old woman, and yet looked to the old woman, overall, more or less, but mostly more, Chinese.†   (source)
  • Something about the baffled irritation in his voice stirred her juices.†   (source)
  • Their baffled little faces did not know what to make of us.†   (source)
  • …. very nature of his ailment continues to baffle me, and baffle us all.†   (source)
  • A doctor who didn't understand local culture would probably mistake many patients' complaints for bizarre superstitions, or at best be utterly baffled—by the female complaint called move san, lèt gate, for instance.†   (source)
  • This woman baffled him.†   (source)
  • Maybe we were all baboons for that matter--big blabbing baboons--smiling away and not really caring what was going on as long as there were enough peanuts bouncing around to think about--the whole pack of us--Bore and the Old Lady and Lorraine's mother included--baffled baboons concentrating on all the wrong things.†   (source)
  • He looks baffled.†   (source)
  • It's a baffling passage.†   (source)
  • Many observers of the trial scene were baffled by the visitor from Boston, Donald Cullivan.†   (source)
  • My case was baffling.†   (source)
  • And, for a moment, he looked utterly baffled and juvenile.†   (source)
  • I must look baffled, because Camel lets loose with a toothless cackle.†   (source)
  • Baxter and Lewis were baffled at first.†   (source)
  • He's abeam of us, we'll be in his baffles soon," Chief Laval reported.†   (source)
  • Completely baffled, my body kept right.†   (source)
  • He was baffled by other people's inability to grasp what he was doing.†   (source)
  • Yes, Mrs. Baffle.†   (source)
  • Changazi still seemed baffled.†   (source)
  • Now it carried more than a hundred thousand products, including baffling-sounding instruments such as the "general-purpose air velocity transducer" ($882) and an "electromagnetic flowmeter" ($2,500).†   (source)
  • How baffling it is that we imagined cities incinerated by alien bombs and death rays when all they needed was Mother Nature and time.†   (source)
  • I was standing there baffled.†   (source)
  • Colonel Cathcart was baffled.†   (source)
  • Only Uncle—with his baffled look and nervous hopping—elicited any sympathy from me, but I confided nothing.†   (source)
  • The Los Angeles police were still stumped and baffled by him.†   (source)
  • "I'm not sure," I say, trying to look as baffled as the next person.†   (source)
  • I could see why people were baffled—if this was true, wasn't Holy Communion cannibalistic?†   (source)
  • The lock baffled her for a few moments, and then she pulled a tool out of her pocket, which she used to bypass the lock quite a bit more quickly than I had anticipated.†   (source)
  • She looked surprised, then thoughtful, then baffled.†   (source)
  • It baffled her.†   (source)
  • On the very eve of the British attack on Long Island, he was still baffled over whether it was the real thing and, if so, what he ought to do.†   (source)
  • Baffled, Eve stared down at the simple gray button in his palm.†   (source)
  • I must have looked baffled, for I wasn't sure for the moment to what he was referring.†   (source)
  • Frank shook his head theatrically, as if baffled why it didn't.†   (source)
  • Baffled, she shook her head.†   (source)
  • He looked first at the Captain and then at me, apparently baffled.†   (source)
  • I raise my fingers to my mouth, baffled.†   (source)
  • This baffled her because she knew what they thought about her, and she'd always call them by their first names and invited them to do the same with her.†   (source)
  • She was so emphatic that I was baffled.†   (source)
  • Dad, I'm sorry," Max said, baffled.†   (source)
  • And when my teammates seemed more interested in ice cream or snow cones after the game, especially if it was a game we lost, I was baffled and upset.†   (source)
  • He was baffled when he saw the Tralfamadorians close their little hands on their eyes.†   (source)
  • The baffled look the angel shoots at the door makes me chuckle.†   (source)
  • "About what?" asked Rearden, baffled.†   (source)
  • He smiled politely at the baffled woman behind the ticket desk and led Dess and Melissa into the museum.†   (source)
  • IYALOJA Horseman of the King, I am more baffled than ever.†   (source)
  • 'That would not baffle a Ranger,' said Gimli.†   (source)
  • And the young lady's in question, of course," Tradd said demurely, but it was obvious that he had never been the central figure in any discussion of sexual prowess and was enjoying the experience in his own baffled manner.†   (source)
  • I knew something about the health and disease of bodies, but for a long time I was baffled at the tremendous personal problems of life, of marriage, of living, and just of being.†   (source)
  • Two chimneys passed through the rock for ten meters and were vented under rainproof baffles.†   (source)
  • It is one thing to think that psychology may solve problems that baffle philosophy or criticism; it well may.†   (source)
  • He shrugged, annoyed, baffled as if by a problem he could not quite solve, yet ought to, certainly, easily.†   (source)
  • Wyoli looked baffled.†   (source)
  • To make the problem even more inscrutable, the wolves seemed reasonably well fed; and to baffle me to the point of near insanity, the two male wolves went off hunting every night and returned every morning, but never appeared to bring anything home.†   (source)
  • Lolla-Wossiky was baffled.†   (source)
  • It was all he wanted—a genuine miracle to confound natural law, a baffling reversal of the inevitable consequences.†   (source)
  • He was not greatly disturbed himself—only intrigued and baffled.†   (source)
  • It was baffling about Sophie and her whiskey—baffling and a little overpowering.†   (source)
  • HELEN comes in groping, baffled, but interested in the new surroundings; ANNIE evades her exploring hand, her gaze not leaving the child.†   (source)
  • He looked at Tom, frowning, baffled.†   (source)
  • Were you not trying to baffle my senses and drive me to destruction?†   (source)
  • I found English grammar dull and baffling.†   (source)
  • You have said so many baffling things and raised so many questions that are evidently painful to you that I don't know what to tell you.†   (source)
  • "I see, she said ("I see, said the blindman, Andrew said), and gave her polite, tinkling, baffled little laugh.†   (source)
  • He put on a gown and glanced at the clock, unaware that he was noting the time panorama of the solar system with an unconscious skill that would have baffled his ancestors.†   (source)
  • Art and the girls exchanged baffled looks.†   (source)
  • Then he frowned as if baffled by his own actions.†   (source)
  • It was baffling to see her friend dabbling in this exotic faith.†   (source)
  • And suddenly my behaviour seemed to me utterly baffling.†   (source)
  • Nuñez looked as baffled as he did alarmed.†   (source)
  • Thomas was baffled, disgusted, but all he could think about was getting out of that place.†   (source)
  • He looked from Clary's baffled face to Simon's.†   (source)
  • Wang looked around in the spring sun, baffled.†   (source)
  • She loves me but finds me baffling and unfeminine, and probably a troublemaker.†   (source)
  • I gagged and stumbled away from them into the dark, simultaneously grossed out and baffled.†   (source)
  • Which left only the middle line, and that one utterly baffled them.†   (source)
  • She was baffled by the mechanisms of her own defenses.†   (source)
  • I was so baffled by this that I didn't even know how to reply.†   (source)
  • "Are those your clothes?" she asked, baffled.†   (source)
  • Baffled, Cinder stood and climbed on top of her chair to peer over the crowd.†   (source)
  • They ignored us, as they, too, looked baffled about why they were there.†   (source)
  • "Why's he still in town, is what I'd like to know," said Reenie, baffled, shifting her ground.†   (source)
  • No one that Phaedrus talked to seemed really concerned about this phenomenon that so baffled him.†   (source)
  • For years, religious scholars had been baffled by biblical references to a city called Sheshach.†   (source)
  • From the very first I had been baffled by his brusqueness with the old man.†   (source)
  • He now tried to get his bearings, but the lie of the land was baffling.†   (source)
  • The few happy ones are like my parents: They're baffled by my singleness.†   (source)
  • The rules for social interaction in school had always baffled her.†   (source)
  • Utterly baffled now, the children held their tongues.†   (source)
  • With a baffled glance in Jace's direction, she held out her bare arm.†   (source)
  • We stood baffled, flapping our hands at the insects zeroing in on us.†   (source)
  • "But—it wasn't like that," I said, baffled.†   (source)
  • Kai's lips twitched, and though he still looked baffled, he did not look angry or disgusted.†   (source)
  • He stood on the platform, baffled, watching the train pull away.†   (source)
  • I wasn't pushing him this time; I was baffled.†   (source)
  • But occasionally one would come along that baffled even him.†   (source)
  • Wang looked at the two officers, baffled.†   (source)
  • "But warlocks are bad," protested Max, looking baffled.†   (source)
  • I remember always being baffled by other children.†   (source)
  • He laughed, relishing my baffled horror.†   (source)
  • I keep wondering who she is, and her expression looks equally baffled.†   (source)
  • I was nervous and baffled and queasily excited all at the same time.†   (source)
  • In another context Clary would have said that they looked baffled.†   (source)
  • When he reached the upper floor he paused, peering through the baffling streams of light.†   (source)
  • Men, Clary thought, they were so baffling.†   (source)
  • "Maybe none of this mattered to him," she said, baffled.†   (source)
  • He was baffled—wondering why I had approached them.†   (source)
  • He looked momentarily baffled by the interruption.†   (source)
  • If he wasn't confused before, he was completely baffled now.†   (source)
  • Clary said, half-baffled and half-terrified.†   (source)
  • The darker man looks at his companion, who shrugs, baffled as well.†   (source)
  • Sarah, though, seemed baffled, and she answered Miles as if the answer to his question were obvious.†   (source)
  • Creeping to the hill's summit, the boys looked out upon a baffling spectacle.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist pondered the message, baffled.†   (source)
  • Doc shook his head, too, slowly, baffled.†   (source)
  • Only Sam and Esme stayed put, baffled and cowering.†   (source)
  • She'd be baffled by my inability to bask in what I've worked so hard to accomplish.†   (source)
  • She paused, baffled as she glanced around.†   (source)
  • Such baffling extremes exist within mankind.†   (source)
  • "It's from Alex," she said, sounding baffled.†   (source)
  • BUTTERCUP WAS BAFFLED by Westley's behavior.†   (source)
  • Alec reached for his belt, looking baffled.†   (source)
  • She shook her head, baffled, outsmarted, helpless.†   (source)
  • But Prof was interested in questions rather than answers, which baffled her.†   (source)
  • The chaplain shook his head in baffled protest.†   (source)
  • I stared up at the hall, baffled, beginning to shake.†   (source)
  • "I'm just saying it's weird," Jonah mused, sounding like a baffled scientist.†   (source)
  • For such simple creatures, they are quite baffling.†   (source)
  • Mr. White stumbled back from the window, horrified and baffled.†   (source)
  • She gazes into their faces, eyes and mouth wide open, baffled but delighted.†   (source)
  • But she continued to study Mavis, baffled.†   (source)
  • Clary looked over her mother's shoulder, baffled, at Simon.†   (source)
  • Teenage smoking is one of the great, baffling phenomena of modern life.†   (source)
  • She looked at him, baffled: she had thought it was.†   (source)
  • Everyone at North Carolina University Hospital was baffled, especially me.†   (source)
  • She looked around the table at her daughters' baffled faces.†   (source)
  • Baffled, Joe said, "Why does he keep asking about it being recorded?"†   (source)
  • Tom had asked him a lot of detailed questions, some of which he could tell Logan found baffling.†   (source)
  • Eve groped into it, too sleepy yet to be baffled by the feel of silk against her skin.†   (source)
▲ show less (of above)
show 1 examples with meaning too rare to warrant focus
  • Never did I see such baffled malice on a face, and never, I trust, shall such ever be seen again by mortal eyes.   (source)
    baffled = fiery
▲ show less (of above)