RIDDLE in a Sentence
Learn RIDDLE 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.
27 example sentences for RIDDLE, such as:
1. Carol's head ached with the riddle.
2. I'm glad they've begun asking riddles.
3. The whole house was riddled with damp.
4. I never could guess a riddle in my life.
5. This epic is a riddle wrapped in a mystery.
2. I'm glad they've begun asking riddles.
3. The whole house was riddled with damp.
4. I never could guess a riddle in my life.
5. This epic is a riddle wrapped in a mystery.
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Meanings and Examples of RIDDLE
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riddle
v. speak in riddles
v. set a difficult problem or riddle
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1 Then why-- But this riddle was swallowed up in a renewed fear for the safety of Ashley and Frank.
2 Carol's head ached with the riddle.
3 Oh, thou foundling fire, thou hermit immemorial, thou too hast thy incommunicable riddle, thy unparticipated grief.
4 "Of a truth, friend, that matter remaineth a riddle; and the Daniel who shall expound it is yet a-wanting," answered the townsman.
5 He put this riddle into two or three different ways.
6 Sikes looked with an aspect of great perplexity into the Jew's face, and reading no satisfactory explanation of the riddle there, clenched his coat collar in his huge hand and shook him soundly.
7 How to discover a solution to this riddle of death seemed a query of more importance than highest problems of the living.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 2 A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 2 A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding
8 The meaning of this councillorship query remained, of course, a riddle to her, yet she handed him the paper without replying.
9 I never could guess a riddle in my life.
10 If such is the form of ultimate wisdom, then life is a greater riddle than some of us think it to be.
11 Perhaps you are right; perhaps, really, every one is a riddle.
12 These periodical five francs were a double riddle to Courfeyrac who lent and to Thenardier who received them.
13 I'm glad they've begun asking riddles.
14 "You speak in riddles, learned sir," said the pale minister, glancing aside out of the window.
15 This was the first time he had ever talked to her in this manner, as one human being to another, talked as other people talked, without flippancy, mockery or riddles.
Example Sentence:
1 With machine guns, they riddle the car with bullets till it looks like a slice of Swiss cheese.
2 This epic is a riddle wrapped in a mystery.
3 Stop talking in riddles -say what you mean.
4 The whole house was riddled with damp.
5 Mr Jones was dismissive of the report, saying it was riddled with inaccuracies.
6 The soldier shot multiple times while defecting to the South is in a stable condition but riddled with parasites that could complicate his chances of survival.