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Example sentences for: cipher

How can you use “cipher” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The original edition gave sparse details on the background of this poem and translated the cipher without explaining it; even the mainstream American Heritage Dictionary, Third Edition, gave more complete treatment.
By comparison, Will, the hero of About a Boy , is an abstraction, the sort of handsome cipher you see in magazine ads for khakis.
She was back within fifteen minutes with the correct solution inked in over the mono-alphabetical cipher.
The Russian prime minister from 1992 until 1998, a Soviet apparatchik before that, Viktor Chernomyrdin remains, oddly, a cipher.
Thomas is a cipher, a man who lets himself be used as a pawn until he erupts in an unconvincing fit of rage before the Senate Confirmation Committee.