How to Use mystify in a Sentence

mystify

verb

• The cause of the disease mystified doctors for many years.
• The magician has been mystifying his audiences for years with his amazing tricks.
• The North Siders sound mystified; those from the city's South and West sides know all about it.
  — Bill Daley, chicagotribune.com, 23 June 2017
• But at the time, Larry and his son were mystified and hurt.
  — Jonathan Abrams, New York Times, 19 June 2023
• The idea that anyone would dive in and get their hands tattooed first mystifies him a bit.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2018
• All the remotes mystify even the people who set the systems up.
  — Alison Sider, WSJ, 26 Nov. 2018
• For a topic that's been front-page news for weeks, the debt ceiling sure seems to mystify a lot of people.
  — David Pogue, CBS News, 28 May 2023
• We are mystified why the company put such a puny timber spike on the saw.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2019
• What stuff about the older players mystified the younger ones, and vice versa?
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 22 July 2023
• But Gilbert sort of mystifies us because the town tries to project such a wholesome image.
  — John D'anna, azcentral, 22 Nov. 2019
• Across the reach of centuries, Eisner was both impressed and mystified by the violence of the killing.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2024
• Chira’s seizures this year have mystified zoo staff, and an MRI would give then a look inside her head, neck and brain.
  — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 12 July 2019
• Is Nothing Left to Lose, and the subject of which drummer plays on which songs continues to mystify fans of the band.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2022
• The fans seemed not so much angry at Leonard, as mystified that a Spur is not here, with his team, giving them his love and support.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Apr. 2018
• Back in the 1500s, Johannes Kepler himself was mystified by the lack of a planet between Mars and Jupiter.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 30 Apr. 2018
• The desire to keep these people away from our country mystifies me.
  — Author: Charles Wohlforth, Alaska Dispatch News, 1 July 2017
• Patton, 28, is mystified by why Hale reached out to her before the massacre.
  — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
• Right, and talking with Iowa Democrats, the thing that the people who are not part of the Biden camp say mystifies them about this campaign is this is a guy who's run now three times.
  — NBC News, 6 Oct. 2019
• Some involved in the Russia case said they were mystified by his statement.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 9 Dec. 2019
• His family and friends said they were mystified by his death.
  — Jane Wester, Adam Bell and Mark Price lavendrick Smith, charlotteobserver, 20 Oct. 2017
• There are things that mystify and things that, sadly, shouldn’t be all that surprising.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Dec. 2020
• As Babbage, Brian Griffin is as mystified by Ada as he is drawn to her.
  — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 14 Apr. 2018
• Her search turned up a Vancouver art project, but she was still mystified as customers asked about them.
  — Ed Fletcher, sacbee, 31 Jan. 2018
• For those who successfully changed the laws in the wake of deadly shootings, the U.S. stance is mystifying.
  — Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2019
• But the Maggiore killings are believed to be his first, and detectives who have worked the case for decades still are mystified by what triggered the slayings.
  — Marjie Lundstrom and Sam Stanton, sacbee, 14 May 2018
• League observers seemed mystified by the $15 million the Ravens paid for a 30-year-old wide receiver coming back from a torn ACL.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2023
• An aunt who was at the court but declined to give her name said Martinez Torres' family is shocked and mystified about the charges against him.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 20 June 2017
• The song’s co-authors, Carey and Walter Afanasieff, are in a mystifying feud.
  — David Bauder, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2023
• The mystifying linguistics of the FDA’s shortage policy is partly to blame for getting people’s hopes up.
  — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2024
• This is a 4-billion-year-old trick that even today mystifies biologists who struggle to understand the processes and principles at work.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024