puzzle

Definition:
1. A game, etc. that you have to think about carefully in order to answer it or do it.
2. A particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution.
3. A toy that tests your ingenuity.
4. Be a mystery or bewildering to.
5. Be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide.

Use 'puzzle' in a sentence:

1. "For all the anxiety the essay causes," says Bill McClintick of Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania, "it's a very small piece of the puzzle."
2. In rehearsing Shakespeare, I puzzle over the complexities of his verse and prose.
3. Ah, that's the great puzzle!
4. As she turned back she caught the puzzled look on her mother's face.
5. The results showed that the parrots with the strongest foot preferences worked out the puzzle far more quickly than their ambidextrous peers.
6. Business decisions are often made with many unknow and unknowable factors, which would even puzzle the best poker players.
7. What puzzles me is why he left the country without telling anyone.
8. The puzzle has one last piece missing.
9. His total disinterest in money puzzled his family.
10. It's a puzzle. I like puzzles.
11. He left for his summer cottage to puzzle out what he might try next.
12. And this poses a puzzle: how can characteristics that disappeared millions of years ago suddenly reappear?
13. Critics and the public puzzle out the layers of meaning in his photos.
14. The child was clearly puzzled at being addressed in such a grown-up way.
15. This has presented climate scientists with a puzzle.
16. Eric brings us back to the puzzle we've been wrestling with since we started reading Locke.
17. Yorkshire people seemed strange, and Martha was always rather a puzzle to her.
18. Macfarlane compares the puzzle to a combination lock.
19. Some puzzles look difficult but once the solution is known are actually quite simple.
20. The people who played the puzzle game did not improve their ability to find things faster.
21. We'd fit together like puzzle pieces.
22. Critics remain puzzled by the British election results.
23. Experts agree that the next few decades will present a puzzle: how to feed nine billion people without wrecking the planet in the process.
24. So really we are working just a few pieces of a big puzzle.
25. It is like one piece of puzzle.
26. The risks can be so complex that banks hire mathematicians to puzzle them out.
27. A rather neat option allows you to design your own fiendish puzzle.
28. These galaxies may constitute an answer to the long-standing puzzle of the missing baryonic mass in the universe.
29. Joe passed his hand over his face and looked puzzled.
30. She had a puzzled look on her face.
31. There's reason to believe that we will get an answer to that piece of the puzzle one day.
32. We requested that the math teacher explain the puzzle again, but he refused.
33. She was a puzzle.
34. Her mother sighed and rubbed out another mistake in the crossword puzzle.
35. We invited readers who completed the puzzle to send in their solutions.
36. This stays silent when the word puzzle is solved through careful analysis.
37. We fitted together the pieces of the puzzle.
38. Stretch your brain with this puzzle.
39. He was trying to puzzle out why he had been brought to the house.
40. I puzzled over the problem for ages before the light suddenly dawned.
41. Scientists are puzzled as to why the whale had swum to the shore.
42. I don't have the patience to do jigsaw puzzles.
43. He looked puzzled so I repeated the question.
44. He wore a puzzled look on his face.
45. His face wore a puzzled look.
46. The rise in accidents remains a puzzle.
47. Geneticists in Canada have discovered a clue to the puzzle of why our cells get old and die.
48. She looked up with a puzzled frown on her face.
49. The priest frowned into the light, his face puzzled.
50. This process is akin to piecing together a jigsaw puzzle.
51. My sister puzzles me and causes me anxiety.