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How to use the word puzzle.. in a Sentence? Page #5

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It was a giant puzzle that was very hard to wrap your head around, no one has faced anything as unprecedented as this. I couldn't just pick up the phone and say 'What did you do when this happened to you?'.

James Wan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

You worry with a test like this that there will be some athletes who might go deliberately slower at baseline if they know it will be used against them to be pulled out of a game later, this vision test is one piece of the puzzle, not the only piece.

Robert Dimeff

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This vision test is one piece of the puzzle, not the only piece, for the 11-year-old youth league where you don't have any health professionals on the sidelines, it can help.

Robert Dimeff

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's fitting the pieces of the puzzle back together. And it's not just an academic exercise, the great gas resources for Australia are in the west, and if you fit that jigsaw back, you get more of a picture of how those gas resources were created.

Robin Beaman

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Her testimony was very important, because you actually had somebody that talked to him before he died and was able to tell the story about what actually happened and she said Jimmie Lee Jackson told her he didn't know why the trooper shot him because he was just protecting his grandfather and mother, it was kind of the final piece of the puzzle to bring it to the grand jury.

Michael Jackson

Found on CNN
9 years ago

How do you stay in this market and do the least damage to your core business - that's the puzzle everybody is focusing on now.

James McGregor

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's like putting a giant jigsaw puzzle together, and we've got two tiny little pieces right now, more are going to start coming into place.

Dan Montgomery

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

When we take all these little puzzle pieces together and we assemble our mosaic, it's very clear that they're having issues. ... I believe that they are hurting.

Scott Stewart

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I think UFO reports represent a substantive puzzle that warrants serious scientific attention, without advocating any particular position on what the answer to that puzzle is … whether it is purely psychological, purely physical or some combination of the two.

Larry Lemke

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The fact that she pointed out these structures is a great contribution to the field, along with the recent reports of methane and organics on Mars, her findings add an intriguing piece to the puzzle of a possible history for life on our neighboring planet.

Penelope Boston

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Listen, we used to have hundreds of hotels and bungalow colonies, we won't have the same thing, but it's a piece of the puzzle.

Steve Levine

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Each one of these things contributes a small piece of the puzzle, it's like a roof with 36 holes in it. Some people have a big hole in, say, exercise, and maybe a smaller hole in another area.

Dale Bredesen

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I think the main attraction isn't the horror, it's the puzzle, (It's) the bringing of order out of disorder.

Dorothy James

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Peter’s specialty is usually sort of the puzzle solving, the putting the pieces together that an FBI agent would be good at. And Neal, I always look at Neal as somebody who can sort of look at the problem from outside the box and approach it in a way that most people wouldn’t think to. Mozzie adds his own expertise, which usually that sort of that street level guy who knows the way that criminals do it. And Elizabeth has a certain amount of emotional intelligence that we try to play off of. She’s going to see things from a human perspective that a lot of times Peter won’t see or Neal won’t see.

Jeff Eastin

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I've discovered that researching family descendants is similar to putting a mouse into a puzzle box to find the cheese. Every time you think you're on the right path, you hit a dead end.

T.R. Threston

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Life is like a puzzle, sometimes you have to take a step back, look at it and see if you are missing any pieces.

Amanda Madden

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter the temple of wisdom. When we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained something that will stay by us and will serve us again. But if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought, but borrowed it.

C. C. Colton

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self it is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

added by anonymous
14 years ago

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Is putting together the puzzle of my life. I was almost done when I realized I had lost a piece. Without that piece, my life incomplete. And sadly, I may never find it again.....

Tamara Johnson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Deception is just a feeling that hold u down... pick up the peaces and move on... just like in the puzzle game....perseverence and practice are the source of experience.

Ngomu Franky

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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