Example Sentences

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"The peculiar preservation of Tridentinosaurus had puzzled experts for decades. Now, it all makes sense. What it was described as carbonized skin, is just paint."

From Science Daily • Feb. 16, 2024

Bull has seen people work through dreams that had puzzled them in the container of the labyrinth.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2023

Those families had puzzled over the suddenness of their older but otherwise healthy and active loved ones’ deaths, and in many cases, filed police reports when jewelry was found missing after their deaths.

From Washington Times • Nov. 19, 2021

But the conclusion about Harding’s racial ancestry likewise addresses a mystery that had puzzled historians for many years and provides a seemingly definitive resolution of a subplot that played out during his lifetime.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2015

“Well, you’re just in time, loves. I mean BEASTIES,” Mrs. Clarke said, after she had puzzled out the acronym and had a good chuckle.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood