Example sentences for: riddles

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

  • Cornell's art consists of useless found objects that, when arranged in boxes and placed behind glass, seem like answers to forgotten riddles set long ago by brilliant and perverse princesses.

  • Many Chicano children remember being entertained with riddles narrated by parents and grandparents.

  • Campa’s work includes collections of folk poetry, riddles, folk songs, and folk drama from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, published mostly in the 1940s and 1950s.

  • He collected folktales, folk songs, proverbs, superstitions, riddles, children’s games, and much more.

  • Bilingual riddles, those narrated in both English and Spanish, are clearly a Chicano invention growing out of the bicultural experience.


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