How to Use perplexity in a Sentence

perplexity

noun

• We will never solve all of the perplexities of life.
• There was a look of perplexity on his face.
• He stared at her in perplexity.
• After weeks of perplexity, Dr. Nielsen woke up one night with an idea.
  — New York Times, 1 July 2019
• The closer the output is to the training data, the lower the perplexity rating.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 14 July 2023
• Adding to the perplexity is the fact that Kaliningrad already had a stadium.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 27 May 2018
• Even Vox, which prides itself on explaining the news, threw up its hands in perplexity.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2017
• This air of wry perplexity turned out to be a defining Willis trait, and was central to his remarkable run of performances in the mid-to-late nineties.
  — Adam Nayman, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2022
• Seeing his perplexity, Annette Bening, who plays Mills’s mother in his new film, fixed his lapels and gave him a brisk, man-up pat.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2017
• If one is in a state of perplexity and bewilderment so severe that they are paralyzed, they are said to be in tharn.
  — Peter Rock, New York Times, 15 May 2018
• That moment of intense perplexity led me to write my first book, which sought to fathom the enigma of mountain-worship.
  — Willa Glickman, The New York Review of Books, 10 July 2021
• The élan of Woolf’s prose and the shimmer of her perceptions are shot through with perplexity and grief, yet the essay is packed with moments of breathtaking insight.
  — Marina Warner, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
• On a number of occasions Stephens was seen looking up to her team in the stands, shaking her head and shrugging her shoulders with a look of perplexity on her face.
  — Sandra Harwitt, USA TODAY, 2 July 2018
• Her perplexity at his moral hypocrisy, a recurring theme, is well-written and well-acted.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 16 Dec. 2023
• Florio wasn't the only person confused by the non-call and the perplexity of the NFL's pass-interference replay system.
  — Jeremy Cluff, azcentral, 11 Nov. 2019
• But for Arika Okrent, genial perplexity isn’t a good enough response.
  — Henry Hitchings, WSJ, 1 July 2021
• The industry has long voiced perplexity over Netflix’s org chart.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Mar. 2023
• The voices hover and slip past one another, find peace and then tumble into more eddies of perplexity.
  — New York Times, 21 Dec. 2017
• Presented with a bottle of the stuff on an episode of his classic talk show, Cavett exhibited a kind of scandalized perplexity.
  — Jason Kehe, Wired, 17 Mar. 2021
• While Goldsmith and Lederman are better guides for the legal question, as a wonk who watched and sometimes helped expand this gray zone, my perplexity breaks down in three ways.
  — Loren Dejonge Schulman, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2017
• In Menderes, Javed’s request was greeted with perplexity.
  — Matthew Wolfe, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
• On the contrary, any early perplexities will come across as exotic, part of the fascination.
  — The Editors, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2017
• But as her shell cracks, Dern moves from perplexity to anguish to incandescent rage, never once overplaying her hand.
  — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 3 June 2022
• Before a breakthrough moment in last night’s episode of Westworld, Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) twitched through season 2 with a uniform expression of perplexity.
  — refinery29.com, 14 May 2018
• The legal system’s perplexity about how to regulate online content was evident from the outcome of the Gonzalez case at the 9th Circuit.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2022
• Darwin's perplexity over the matter of why humans make music is sweet, in retrospect, sweet in the way many of his other errors and examples of shortsightedness are not.
  — Wyatt Mason, Esquire, 7 June 2017
• The Mongols have been ill-served by history, the victims of an unfortunate mixture of prejudice and perplexity.
  — Maxwell Carter, WSJ, 9 Apr. 2021
• But yielding to the idea of the Holocaust’s incomparability leads us into a thicket of moral perplexities.
  — Peter E. Gordon, The New York Review of Books, 7 Jan. 2020
• This technology will mobilize at the first sign of perplexity.
  — Laura Grace Weldon, WIRED, 24 Oct. 2011
• By early afternoon, Twitter was a hot mess of Pitino perplexity.
  — Bailey Loosemore, The Courier-Journal, 16 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024