Example sentences for: mysteries

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

  • It's all very puzzling, and the urgent hope that Updike will explain these many mysteries keeps you faithfully turning the pages.

  • Outside the main site to the north, the Villa of Mysteries (Villa dei Misteri) is Pompeii’s other most cherished artistic treasure.

  • You either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever," and many reviewers seem to see the hankie waving here at the boy wonder who a decade ago wowed the critics with The Mysteries of Pittsburgh . As Michael Gorra says in the New York Times Books Review , "Promising is still the word I'd choose" to describe this collection, "but after 10 years and four books that adjective has to seem a disappointment."

  • Where the mysteries of Eleusis were only open to a few initiates, advice from the Oracle at Delphi was open to all.

  • It is hard to imagine someone buying the ingredients for an Orgasm at a liquor store and then going home and mixing up a few to drink while reading mysteries in bed.


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