riddle

Example Sentences

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No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.

From Literature

“To answer the riddles. I’m no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. And you do owe me: for the business with the lampposts.”

From Literature

He’s humble, witty, and sometimes speaks in riddles, just to see if I’ll notice.

From Literature

Hayes said many of the assessments about Greg were "riddled with inaccuracies".

From BBC

The song’s lyrics don’t directly correspond to the beauty and pain contained in “Sound of Falling” — it’s just one more layer of enigma in a movie that doesn’t answer all its riddles.

From Los Angeles Times