unriddle

Example Sentences

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As I drank, I became aware that I was perched on the edge of my seat, fully at attention as I attempted to unriddle its intriguing, distantly familiar contents.

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2024

In Marsala, I went back for seconds then thirds of Ristorante I Bucanieri's eggplant parm, trying to unriddle its confoundingly luxe texture.

From Salon • Jul. 31, 2023

She told me that Wallace's crush was "a mystery I haven't been able to unriddle."

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2012

A Yankee boarder at a down-at-heel Alabama plantation helps a slow but sure Southern sheriff unriddle two murders that disrupt the peace of a poor, proud family.

From Time Magazine Archive

Who shall unriddle the weird significance of its close, unless, like old Thomas Newton in his Notable History of the Saracens, they believe “that the serpent with two heads signifieth his sinful and gylty conscience”?

From Legends & Romances of Spain by Spence, Lewis