Words similar to riddle

Example sentences for: riddle

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

Another example is a “true riddle,” which is a comparison of something to the unknown answer, and that something is described in the question.
It was, the Sphinx explains, his answer to the riddle: “Man.”
The effect is that of a hushed chapel, and on the altar is this gorgeous riddle of a painting, with its tilted plate of ripe pears, its pendulous eggplants, its great blue-black bedspread draped across the lower half of the painting, and its round, wicker-wound ginger jar, carefully placed in the middle.
Another type of riddle is the riddling question, such as “Qué le dijo la luna al sol?”
Hobbes follows up on the Lyons-Spakowski riddle and--due in part to a much more responsive and comprehensive version of America Online than exists in reality--discovers that the killer's body had been possessed by the spirit of a dark angel named Azazel.