MYSTERY in a Sentence

Learn MYSTERY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
260 example sentences for MYSTERY, such as:
1. Nobody clued us to this mystery.
2. Nobody has ever solved the mystery.
3. The mystery has not yet been completely solved.
4. It's a mystery to me why they didn't choose him.
5. It's a complete mystery to me why they chose him.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of MYSTERY
mystery
 n.  something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
 n.  a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Under these circumstances, I eagerly hailed the little mystery which hung around my companion, and spent much of my time in endeavouring to unravel it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  I had imagined that Sherlock Holmes would at once have hurried into the house and plunged into a study of the mystery.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
3  You certainly have the credit of being the first of us to find this out, and, as you say, it bears every mark of having been written by the other participant in last night's mystery.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
4  The man whom you held in your hands is the man who holds the clue of this mystery, and whom we are seeking.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
5  It is true that the description of this man tallies with your idea of the second party in this mystery.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
6  There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
7  How he came there, or how he met his fate, are questions which are still involved in mystery.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
8  It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
9  "And now, gentlemen," he continued, with a pleasant smile, "we have reached the end of our little mystery."
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
10  Its invisibility, and the mystery which was attached to it, made this organization doubly terrible.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
11  I knew now that I held the clue to the mystery in my hand, and all that remained was to secure the murderer.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
12  The mystery of where the milk went to was soon cleared up.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
13  But in his ravaged face she always felt mystery; and in his silence, passion.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
14  If he could but once set eyes on him, he thought the mystery would lighten and perhaps roll altogether away, as was the habit of mysterious things when well examined.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
15  Herein lay the spring of the mechanical art and mystery of educating the reason without stooping to the cultivation of the sentiments and affections.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1  A good mystery story is a battle of wits between author and reader.
2  There needs a long apprenticeship to understand the mystery of the world's trade.
3  The mystery was solved when the police discovered the murder weapon.
4  The police are close to solving the mystery of the missing murder weapon.
5  The mystery has not yet been completely solved.
6  It's a mystery to me why they didn't choose him.
7  We reboarded the coach and set off on a magical mystery tour in search of tea.
8  It's a complete mystery to me why they chose him.
9  Twenty years after the event, his death remains a mystery.
10  Tell you that I reach the goal of the mystery, I only power is my persistence spirit.
11  How the massive stones were brought here from hundreds of miles away is/remains a mystery.
12  The net result of the long police investigation is that the identity of the killer is still a complete mystery.
13  Maybe it was the trees that gave this place its atmosphere of mystery and timelessness.
14  Nobody clued us to this mystery.
15  Nobody has ever solved the mystery.