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Example sentences for "little puzzled"

  • George Fairfax was a little puzzled by my lady's diplomacy, and perhaps just a little disgusted.

  • But he was a little puzzled by the presence of George Fairfax, nevertheless.

  • But the Duke of Orleans himself just happened to come in at the nick of time, when I was beginning to get a little puzzled.

  • Most worthy, sir," replied the young secretary, a little puzzled what to answer.

  • Looking at Paul's plain, though neat clothes, the servant was a little puzzled to understand what had obtained for Paul the honor of being on visiting terms with Mrs. Danforth.

  • As he wanted to carry these with him, he was at first a little puzzled by this new difficulty.

  • My name isn't Tom," said Paul, feeling a little puzzled by this address.

  • Captain Chancellor was a little puzzled, a little annoyed, and a little surprised.

  • And Sydney, who had been a little puzzled by Gerald's visit to Nunswell, was greatly delighted by his cheerful looks and satisfactory report of her sister.

  • But in her heart she felt not a little puzzled by his unaccountable behaviour.

  • Well,' said Mrs. Gibson, a little puzzled by this speech, and wanting some elucidatory addition.

  • Molly was a little puzzled by this speech, but soon put it out of her head.

  • Intent on her game, she was already gathering the flowers in her lap, while the young man a little puzzled and a little amused watched the face which she described for his benefit as needing to look young.

  • Leila a little puzzled glanced at her aunt.

  • The Squire a little puzzled by his wife's evident disinclination to interfere with the dinner-table politics got a faint suspicion that here had come into Grey Pine a new and positive influence.

  • Mr. Purcey, a little puzzled; "that, of course.

  • I might effect a radical change in their views," continued Mr. Lavender, a little puzzled.

  • The air of desperate absorption vanished, she smiled, waved a kiss, made a pretty face as if she were a little puzzled and a little bored.

  • My reader might be a little puzzled when he read that Number Five did or said such or such a thing, and ask, "Whom do you mean by that title?

  • The divinity-student looked a little puzzled at this suggestion, as if he did not see exactly where he was to come out, if he computed his arc too nicely.

  • Yes, and I have been a little puzzled," continued Longcluse.

  • Mr. Franklin was a little puzzled at these transports, all about a boot.

  • I do not think that is quite so," Zora pondered aloud, "and I am a little puzzled.

  • Miss Taylor looked up a little puzzled, and became aware of a battery of eyes and ears.

  • Within, Mrs. Vanderpool was a little puzzled at herself.

  • Beauclerk, who is a little puzzled, but not altogether displeased at the turn affairs have taken.

  • She has grown a little pale--a little puzzled frown is contracting her forehead.

  • She was not crying," says Joyce slowly, a little puzzled.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little puzzled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    little about; little before his death; little black; little broth; little bundle; little fire; little giant; little gray; little lady; little love; little mouse; little one; little open; little part; little paste; little pleased; little round; little salt; little short; little shudder; little sigh; little start; little surprised; little thing; little wistfully; military tenure