Example sentences for: conundrums

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

  • The plays share a certain puzzlelike quality; they are full of easy paradoxes and diverting logical conundrums.

  • Conundrums contain wordplay and in Chicano culture are sometimes bilingual, playing with words in both the Spanish and the English language.

  • In each of these books--ingeniously structured around the cycle of the Hogwarts school year--Rowling manages to impart new information about the wizard world (and slyly fill you in in case you've missed the earlier installments, something that will become increasingly important as the series fills its projected seven volumes and sales figures mount into the trillions), to advance the long-term narrative conflict (about Harry's search for his origins, and his Manichean struggle with Voldemort, a wizard who's gone over to the Dark Side), and to create and resolve enough satisfying short- and middle-term conundrums to make the volume stand alone.

  • According to the Times , the mental life of the tube titans is very complicated, struggling as they do with such conundrums as the erosion of network share of the total viewing audience, age demographic nuances, and the thinning of the talent and writing pools.


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