Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Early on, Ochman had been puzzling over two microbial mysteries: why genomes of E. coli strains can vary in size by as much as 50%, and how other bacteria abruptly change from benign to pathogenic.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 14, 2019

But I made sure to avail myself of the opportunity to get clarity on an issue that had been puzzling me for the last 15 years.

From Salon • Sep. 24, 2019

He'd take a bus a hundred miles south into Mississippi to “see” some old-fashioned Bell equipment still in use in several states, which had been puzzling him.

From Slate • Oct. 7, 2011

I had been puzzling about those numbers myself even as I was putting up the tablets.

From The Guardian • Nov. 12, 2010

At last his curiosity got the better of him, and he asked something which had been puzzling him for some time.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White