RIDDLE in a Sentence

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"Of a truth, friend, that matter remaineth a riddle; and the Daniel who shall expound it is yet a-wanting," answered the townsman.

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 Meanings and Examples of RIDDLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
riddle
 v.  pierce with numerous holes; perforate; permeate or spread throughout
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
2  Carol's head ached with the riddle.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  Oh, thou foundling fire, thou hermit immemorial, thou too hast thy incommunicable riddle, thy unparticipated grief.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 119. The Candles.
4  "Of a truth, friend, that matter remaineth a riddle; and the Daniel who shall expound it is yet a-wanting," answered the townsman.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
5  He put this riddle into two or three different ways.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 22
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.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
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
8  The meaning of this councillorship query remained, of course, a riddle to her, yet she handed him the paper without replying.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
9  I never could guess a riddle in my life.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
10  If such is the form of ultimate wisdom, then life is a greater riddle than some of us think it to be.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
11  Perhaps you are right; perhaps, really, every one is a riddle.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  These periodical five francs were a double riddle to Courfeyrac who lent and to Thenardier who received them.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LARK'S MEADOW
13  I'm glad they've begun asking riddles.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII. A Mad Tea-Party
14  "You speak in riddles, learned sir," said the pale minister, glancing aside out of the window.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
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.