Example Sentences

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I am an idiot," he concluded; "I am fighting with the air; I am puzzling myself with words, about habits of which I have no knowledge.

From The Cathedral by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)

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 Stockton, Frank Richard

I am puzzling over this group because the paleontological record is comparatively so good.

From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Huxley, Leonard

I think I know where I am puzzling you now——” “Then for Heaven’s sake be merciful,” he exclaimed.

From Anna the Adventuress by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

"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 Lever, Charles James