How to Use baffling in a Sentence

baffling

adjective
  • That's baffling to me that it was even checked.
    — Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • To still have the queen as the head of state, in this day and age, is baffling to me.
    — Omid Scobie, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Kaepernick’s year-plus-long quest to find work is both baffling and not.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 5 Apr. 2018
  • But the most baffling plot point on the show right now has nothing to do with any of this.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 31 Oct. 2018
  • Why anyone would choose to do it for fun remains a bit baffling.
    — National Geographic, 4 Mar. 2019
  • For now, both men say they are trapped in a baffling legal limbo.
    — CBS News, 18 July 2021
  • This context makes what happened next seem all the more baffling.
    — Ken Stier, miamiherald, 13 Sep. 2017
  • That number, and a whole lot of others, were just baffling.
    — ABC News, 1 May 2026
  • To many analysts, this shift might have seemed baffling.
    — Mira Rapp-Hooper, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
  • To me, that as a fact, is baffling, and that’s why this story is so critical.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The assortment of microbes found in the glacier is baffling, too.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 4 July 2022
  • Even by the standards of long-shot campaigns, this one has made some baffling missteps.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
  • That sense of aimless moral drift seems to have inspired many of their most baffling choices.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Of all the strange twists that led to Monken’s hiring, that is perhaps the most baffling.
    — Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The fact that the Pixel 4 didn't launch with this feature is kind of baffling.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 7 Apr. 2020
  • The baffling version is one most visible right on the surface of the show.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Those at the city council find these suggestions baffling.
    — Pol Ballús, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • For a team steeped in history, this type of milestone is both damning and baffling.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026
  • After all, Friedman has made signings or trades in the past that seemed baffling.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2021
  • Being only five years old, the news was baffling to Sally.
    — Hank Beckman, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2025
  • This is one of the most baffling questions in the documentary.
    — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 13 May 2022
  • But the pop culture of twelve years ago is baffling, uncanny, affronting.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Mar. 2026
  • That lack of curiosity has always been baffling to me.
    — Thomas Drance, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Others found the question baffling.
    — Nik Popli, Time, 26 Mar. 2026
  • This was the most fun and the least baffling Grammy ceremony in many years.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 15 Mar. 2021
  • That was another baffling loss in a season that has already been full of them for the Tide.
    — AL.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • But each conversation that night was more baffling than the last; no one seemed to know what was happening.
    — Garrett M. Graff, New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2026
  • In fact, looking at the film as an adult can feel a tad baffling, watching teens sweat and cry and emote over what feel like non-issues.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 24 Jan. 2026
  • At best, this total DJI ban is a baffling oversight.
    — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 12 June 2026
  • In certain ways, choosing Minaj as a surprise guest was a baffling homage.
    — Erin Vanderhoof, Vanity Fair, 22 Dec. 2025

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