MYSTIFY in a Sentence

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For MYSTIFY, below is one of 16 sentences:
There is a Caribbean feel to the song and that type of energy and enthusiasm to the song that makes it somewhat mystifying.

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 Meanings and Examples of MYSTIFY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mystify
 v.  bewilder purposely; confuse or puzzle mentally; make obscure or mysterious
Classic Sentence:
1  Night after night, I record predictions that never come to pass, professions that are never fulfilled, explanations that are only meant to mystify.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 43. ANOTHER RETROSPECT
2  She gazed at it with a mystified expression.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  Mary got up, much mystified, and found the cord.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  "Perhaps it is," said the nurse, still looking at him with a mystified expression.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  But the little oven in the hollow and Mrs. Sowerby's bounties were so satisfying that Mrs. Medlock and the nurse and Dr. Craven became mystified again.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  Montalivet, transmitted to the prefect of Bayonne, mystified by two Greek words, tele, graphein.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 60. The Telegraph.
7  Lestrade grabbed it up and stared at it with mystified eyes.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
8  Rance resumed his seat, without however losing his mystified expression.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
9  He stood for a few minutes holding the candle aloft, and blinking on our travellers with a dismal and mystified expression that was truly ludicrous.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  Despite a mystifying listlessness of manner, so strange in a girl of fifteen, she charmed him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
11  Porthos fancied they were mystifying him, and began to curl his mustache and knit his eyebrows; but the knee of Mme.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 32 A PROCURATOR'S DINNER
Example Sentence:
1  Secret brotherhoods surround themselves with arcane rituals and trappings to mystify outsiders.
2  When doctors speak in medical jargon, they often mystify their patients, who have little knowledge of medical terminology.
3  The audience must have been totally mystified by the plot.
4  He mystified us all by pouring his drink out of the window.
5  There is a Caribbean feel to the song and that type of energy and enthusiasm to the song that makes it somewhat mystifying.