MYSTERIOUS in a Sentence

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An entire system of mysterious statics is daily practised by prisoners, men who are forever envious of the flies and birds.

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 Meanings and Examples of MYSTERIOUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mysterious
 a.  beyond ordinary understanding
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He who sees it shivers with the most mysterious of shivers.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
2  A moment later he was in his garden, walking, meditating, contemplating, his heart and soul wholly absorbed in those grand and mysterious things which God shows at night to the eyes which remain open.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V—TRANQUILLITY
3  An entire system of mysterious statics is daily practised by prisoners, men who are forever envious of the flies and birds.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
4  The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
5  Those rare dreamers, mysterious priests of the beautiful who silently confront everything with perfection, would have caught a glimpse in this little working-woman, through the transparency of her Parisian grace, of the ancient sacred euphony.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR
6  She thought that, above this inn, she beheld the mysterious HERE of Providence.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
7  Nevertheless, people continued to say that no one ever got into the room, and that it was a hermit's cave, a mysterious retreat, a hole, a tomb.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
8  Carve as we will the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny constantly reappears in it.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE
9  The human body has something of this tremor when the instant arrives in which the mysterious fingers of Death are about to pluck the soul.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HA...
10  It was one of those accidents which are always occurring, and which seem to form a part of the mysterious stage-setting of mournful scenes.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—FANTINE HAPPY
11  A mysterious frown becomes perceptible in the depths of the heavens.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LAC...
12  When the earth is suffering from too heavy a burden, there are mysterious groanings of the shades, to which the abyss lends an ear.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED
13  His sliding motion, his attitudes, his mysterious and rapid gestures, caused him to resemble those twilight larvae which haunt ruins, and which ancient Norman legends call the Alleurs.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT
14  Once in the forest he slackened his pace, and began a careful examination of all the trees, advancing, step by step, as though seeking and following a mysterious road known to himself alone.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
15  These words possess the mysterious and admirable property of swelling the bill on the following day.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
Example Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
16  It is one of the great unsolved mysteries of this century.
17  How the disease started is one of medicine's great mysteries.
18  For years people have been trying to fathom the mysteries of the whale's song.
19  They spend their time philosophizing about the mysteries of life.
20  Jason, as his father's protege, is destined to probe the mysteries of the hometown church.
21  Holmes is portrayed as a detective genius, a man whose mind can pierce through murk and uncertainty to the truth, while Dr. Watson, smart as he might be, is mostly a bumbler when it comes to solving mysteries.
22  A good mystery story is a battle of wits between author and reader.
23  There needs a long apprenticeship to understand the mystery of the world's trade.
24  The mystery was solved when the police discovered the murder weapon.
25  The police are close to solving the mystery of the missing murder weapon.
26  The mystery has not yet been completely solved.
27  It's a mystery to me why they didn't choose him.
28  We reboarded the coach and set off on a magical mystery tour in search of tea.
29  It's a complete mystery to me why they chose him.
30  Twenty years after the event, his death remains a mystery.