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How to use mysterious in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective

Mysterious means of unknown origin. Example: “He received a mysterious phone call this morning.”

Examples of mysterious by meaning

adjectiveOf unknown origin.

  • He received a mysterious phone call this morning.

adjectiveHaving unknown qualities.

  • Our boss is a mysterious man who hardly ever meets with us.

adjectiveDifficult to understand.

  • Why he left without saying goodbye is quite mysterious.
  • Buttressed by clothes, walls and objects, there was the bourgeois family, the most mysterious institution of the age.1975, Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Capital. 1848-1875, published 1995, page 278

adjectiveDeliberately evasive or enigmatic.

  • Stop being mysterious and just tell me what you want.

More sentences with mysterious

  • I use an echo effect here to make the sound more mysterious.From the entry effect
  • I suspect Suzanne and her mysterious friend of being involved in an intrigue.From the entry intrigue
  • I will never touch The Orb, even though its mysterious glow seduces and beguiles.From the entry beguile
  • The mysterious woman meandered up the street, shailing and leaning precariously at times.From the entry shail
  • To keep his identity mysterious, the boss only speaks from out of frame.From the entry out of frame
  • I'm hatching this mysterious egg I found in the forest.From the entry hatch
  • During the séance, we heard mysterious rappings on the table.From the entry rapping
  • Dumping fertilizer on top of whatever mysterious goop was in the storage tank created a combustible mix which caught fire.From the entry combustible
  • His moon-eyed gaze was disarming and mysterious.From the entry moon-eyed
  • Calotypes have a hazy and mysterious feeling about them and feel painterly in the way they look.2022, Morgan Post, Alternative Process Photography for the Contemporary Photographer: A Beginner's Guide, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN. From the entry calotype
  • Type erasure is often seen as a mysterious, enigmatic programming technique.2019, Fedor G. Pikus, Hands-On Design Patterns with C++: Solve common C++ problems with modern design patterns and build robust…. From the entry type erasure
  • An earlier and slightly mysterious version of Betteridge's law applies to the rarefied world of particle physics.2015, Philip Gooden, “Arts”, in Skyscrapers, Hemlines and the Eddie Murphy Rule: Life’s Hidden Laws, Rules and Theories, London; New York…. From the entry Betteridge's Law
  • First, a woman goes missing, and leaves her things and a mysterious note in her car.2015, Martin Edwards, The Dungeon House, Allison & Busby, →ISBN. From the entry polac
  • With an embossed cover, vellum pages and brooding, mysterious artwork, this tome has a rich, premium feel.2015 December 28, Nino Kilgore-Marchetti, “Are Scotch Single Malt Tomes A New Trend? Perhaps”, in The Whiskey Wash, archived from the…. From the entry cryptex
  • The mysterious Naṇa’s connection to the Chinese Nazha (Nezha) is unmistakable.2014, Meir Shahar, “Indian mythology and the Chinese imagination”, in John Kieschnick, Meir Shahar, editors, India in the Chinese…. From the entry Vaisravana
  • Nevertheless, an element of real danger adds a piscine frisson to most encounters with this mysterious teleost.2013 April, David Profumo, “Dances with Swords”, in Literary Review. From the entry teleost
  • Thus, the energy source of the radiation of magnetars is a mysterious question.2011, Yukikatsu Terada, Tadayasu Dotani, “The International X-ray Observatiry and other X-ray missions, expectations for pulsar physics”…. From the entry magnetar
  • The problem was that nobody could isolate the exact chemical that caused the sleep, the mysterious hypnotoxin.2011, Rob Lubitz, Breaking Free, page 65. From the entry hypnotoxin
  • A mysterious maverick to say the least, the Illusive Man heads the Cerberus network.2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Cerberus: The Illusive Man Codex entry. From the entry intelligence agency
  • Their relationships with modern gnathostomes have remained mysterious, partly because their un-mineralized endoskeletons rarely fossilized.2009 January 15, Martin D. Brazeau, “The braincase and jaws of a Devonian 'acanthodian' and modern gnathostome origins”, Nature Volume 457…. From the entry endoskeletons
  • Like the taiga, he was everywhere, and mysterious—a heroic being with unearthly gifts.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 871. From the entry taiga
  • You've been so mysterious about the whole thing, people are starting to talk.2006, Philip Sington, Zoia's Gold, Scribner, →ISBN, page 197. From the entry ulterior motive
  • You've produced this redolent oxyphonia in me, this mysterious paroxysm of wicked albuminuria.2006, Will Alexander, Sunrise in Armageddon, →ISBN, page 90. From the entry oxyphonia
  • Marketing is inherently mysterious, and we forget this at our peril.2005, Stephen Brown, Wizard!: Harry Potter’s Brand Magic (Great Brand Stories), Cyan Books, →ISBN, page 175. From the entry Potteresque
  • Now they are said only to be found in the darkest and most mysterious of laboratories.2004, Paola Amico, James Beletic, Scientific Detectors for Astronomy: The Beginning of a New Era, page xxvi. From the entry ent
  • Lacebark pine is more mysterious, flaking dark bark revealing patches of chalky white.2000 December 13, Al Cook, “Early winter offers beauty to visitors at Dawes”, in The Advocate, Newark, Oh., page 4D, column 3. From the entry corn-flakey
  • Cosmopolitan, bustling, exotic, mysterious, Shanghai was a cultural crossroads and the quintessential liberty town for sailors.1996, James R. Schultz, “Paris Of The East”, in The Long Way Home: A Pacific Odyssey of World War II, Creative Arts Book Company, →ISBN…. From the entry Paris of the East
  • Her back arched, and in the moonglow she looked like a pagan offering, mysterious, delectable, irresistible.1994, Susan Wiggs, Circle in the Water, page 221. From the entry moonglow
  • She massaged her features with vitamin E oil and other compounds of mysterious youthfulizing powers.1994, John Nichols, Conjugal Bliss: A Comedy of Marital Arts, New York: Henry Holt & Co, page 109. From the entry youthfulize
  • The book is a great misfavor to the mysterious, exciting , and even elegant squid.1992, Children's Literature Review - Volume 28, page 53. From the entry misfavor
  • That the mysterious pursuers were not as his concern suggested, meant they were equipped with shields.1992, Andre Norton, Forerunner Foray, Roc Book, →ISBN, page 208. From the entry ultraconcentration
  • Believers in the paranormal claimed the circles radiated mysterious energy forces.1991 September 23, Leon Jaroff, “It happens in the best circles”, in Time, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2016. From the entry cereology
  • What causes this resistance is among the great mysterious defects of national life.1986, Management Today. From the entry sunriser
  • Well, the Lord works in mysterious ways, like my friend Fran used to say.1980 December 27, Andrea Loewenstein, “Voices in the Night”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 23, page 12. From the entry the Lord works in mysterious ways
  • CHARTOMANCY: Divination by writing or interpreting inscriptions, sometimes of mysterious origin.[1973, Walter B. Gibson, Litzka R. Gibson, The Complete Illustrated Book of Divination and Prophecy, London: Souvenir Press, published…. From the entry chartomancy

Meaning of mysterious

  1. adjective Of unknown origin.
  2. adjective Having unknown qualities.
  3. adjective Difficult to understand.

Full definition of mysterious

Questions about mysterious in a sentence

How do you use mysterious in a sentence?
Mysterious is used as an adjective. For example: “He received a mysterious phone call this morning.”
What is a short sentence with mysterious?
“His moon-eyed gaze was disarming and mysterious.”
What does mysterious mean?
Mysterious means of unknown origin.

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