Example sentences for: riddle

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

  • Another type of riddle is the riddling question, such as “Qué le dijo la luna al sol?”

  • Another type of riddle is the conundrum, where the answer is contained in the riddle itself, such as “Agua pasa por mi casa cate de mi corazon” (Water passes by my house pain of my heart).

  • A letter to his editor at Grove Press: "I cant possibly go on as a responsible prose artist and also as a believer in the impulses of my own heart and in the beauty of pure spontaneous language if I let editors take my sentences, which are my phrases that I separate by dashes when I 'draw a breath,' each of which pours out to the tune of the whole story its own rhythmic yawp of expostulation, & riddle them with commas, cut them in half, in threes, in fours, ruining the swing ...

  • Since the problem presented in a riddle is linguistically and culturally based on both the teller’s and the audience’s culture, they must all be members of the same community or group to comprehend the puzzle.

  • The killer mischievously tells Hobbes a riddle ("Why is there a space between Lyons and Spakowski?"


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