Sentences with 'puzzles'
Example sentences and phrases with the word puzzles and other words derived from it.
• « One of the great puzzles of world history is why European states expanded so rapidly and aggressively, over the long term, while other powers such as China, the Ottoman Empire or the kingdoms of India did not. »
• « Country people wave at me from their vans and cars, barely taking their hands off the wheel. At first, the gesture puzzles me. I wonder if they are trying to tell me that my lights are on or that I have a low tyre, or if perhaps they have mistaken me for someone else. I've never seen most of these guys - who do they think they're waving at? »
• « "All my life I wanted to be a palaeontologist, as a child I was dazzled in front of a Tyrannosaurus Rex and set out to put those bone puzzles together. When I found my first fossil, I almost cried with joy. »