Example Sentences

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"What mystifies me is why not relaunch The Tig," she says, referring to the lifestyle website that Meghan once ran.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2025

“There’s this thing about this place that has so much history. In a way, it mystifies movies forever. Once your film was in Cannes, it was in Cannes.”

From Seattle Times • May 11, 2024

This orca behavior mystifies scientists—but they identified a few potential explanations, such as play.

From National Geographic • Oct. 30, 2023

While the Bronx is less than an hour from Columbia by subway, it feels like a whole other world — one that at times mystifies Sarah.

From Washington Post • Aug. 8, 2022

“It mystifies me, Miss Lumley, how you can even persist in calling those three untamed creatures ‘children.’

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood