puzzle
noun
a toy, problem, or other contrivance designed to amuse by presenting difficulties to be solved by ingenuity or patient effort.
am puzzling
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present progressiveof puzzle (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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For instance, if I am puzzling over anything they will explain it quite clearly, but afterwards I always forget the explanation and am no wiser than I was before.
From Love Eternal by Henry Rider Haggard
That is what I am puzzling over, Beorn.
From Wulf the Saxon A Story of the Norman Conquest by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
There is nothing that bothers me so much as to have people try to teach me things when I am puzzling them out for myself.
From Pomona's Travels A Series of Letters to the Mistress of Rudder Grange from her Former Handmaiden by Frank Richard Stockton
I am puzzling my poor head for a name to give this young lady here.
From Olive A Novel by G. Bowers
"I am puzzling myself," said the stranger at last, "to find out are you an Englishman, who has lived long abroad, or are you a foreigner?"
From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever
