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How to use mystery in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Mystery means something secret or unexplainable; an unknown. Example: “The truth behind the events remains a mystery.”

Examples of mystery by meaning

nounSomething secret or unexplainable; an unknown.

  • The truth behind the events remains a mystery.
  • It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities.1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings
  • The fate of the railway from Ballater to Braemar has been invested with an air of mystery, which has never been completely dispelled.1957 January, H. A. Vallance, “The Deeside Railway—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 6

nounSomeone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature.

  • That man is a mystery.
  • Then I had a good think on the subject of the hocussing of Cigarette, and I was reluctantly bound to admit that once again the man in the corner had found the only possible solution to the mystery.1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Hocussing of Cigarette”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin...

nounA secret religious celebration, admission to which was usually through initiation.

  • the Eleusinian mysteries
  • the Mysteries of Mithras
  • It is, indeed, part of the ritual of the candidate for adeptship into the British mysteries, resembling that for the neophyte into the Osirian, Cabiric or Orphean mysteries.1928, Lewis Spence, Mysteries of Britain, page v. 123

nounA particular event or series of events in the life of Christ.

  • The second decade of the Rosary concerns the Sorrowful mysteries, such as the crucifixion and the crowning with thorns.

More sentences with mystery

  • These clues allowed us to piece together the solution to the mystery.From the entry piece
  • The pronoun "it" in "It's a mystery why this happened" is a dummy.From the entry dummy
  • The actual geography of the murderous mind is still a mystery.From the entry geography
  • The egg has, during the span of history, represented mystery, magic, medicine, food and omen.From the entry omen
  • The Loch Ness Monster is one of the mysteries of cryptozoology.From the entry cryptozoology
  • The unplumbed depths of the sea will remain a mystery to land-bound humans.From the entry unplumbed
  • The mystery was finally fathomable after years of research.From the entry fathomable
  • The structure of the society was still a mystery.From the entry structure
  • The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.From the entry shroud
  • The discovery of a clue unlocked the mystery.From the entry unlock
  • He checked his favorite mystery out for the twenty-third time.From the entry check out
  • He was a tall dark man, cloaked in mystery.From the entry cloaked
  • He puzzled out the mystery by weighing the facts.From the entry puzzled out
  • This mystery has vexed us all hitherto; perhaps you will be able to shed light upon the matter, Inspector.From the entry shed light upon
  • Guess who will be our mystery guest this week.From the entry mystery guest
  • That mystery should be easily soluble.From the entry soluble
  • The detective faced a perplexing mystery.From the entry perplexing
  • I read a murderless mystery book.From the entry murderless
  • All he left behind were a few traces and a mystery that was never solved.2026 August 23, Aniket Chaughule, “Christopher Thompkins Vanished From a Georgia Survey Site in 2002. His Coworkers Were Only 50 Feet…. From the entry leave behind
  • By Shakespearean I mean there was a blend of pageantry, procession, music and mystery.2023 May 7, Michael Billington, “The Coronation review – immaculately rehearsed, touching and Shakespearean”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry Shakespearean
  • As ever, the NRA's expert panel of judges visited each as unannounced mystery shoppers.2023 October 18, Nick Brodrick, “The grand gateway to Glasgow”, in RAIL, number 994, page 33. From the entry vie
  • Attraction depends on several factors, including mystery and spontaneity—especially early on in the relationship.2023 August 22, Megan Schaltegger, “Hate to Say It: The "Find My" App Could Be Hurting Your Relationship”, in Cosmopolitan. From the entry butterflies
  • Of all the mysteries of ancient Rome, silphium is among the most intriguing.2022 May 15, James Tapper, “Caesar’s favourite herb was the Viagra of ancient Rome. Until climate change killed it off”, in The Observer. From the entry silphium
  • Now that’s a mystery, according to Friends of Lansing’s Historic Cemeteries (FOLHC) President Loretta S.2021 September 24, Lauren M. Johnson and Christina Zdanowicz, “A gravestone missing for almost 150 years was being used as a marble slab…. From the entry gravestone
  • Every part of the body inside these bags of mystery meat showed some sign of injury.2021, James Felton, You Don't Want to Know. From the entry mystery meat
  • But Akunin picks a new genre, for his Seagull is a murder mystery.2021, The Akunin Project: The Mysteries and Histories of Russia's Bestselling Author, University of Toronto Press, page 64. From the entry Hercule Poirot
  • Why they didn’t both break their necks or get hamburgered by cloven hooves was a mystery.2020, Lynn Stansbury, Crossing the Divide, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse. From the entry hamburger
  • The study pinpointed the source of the sarsens, a mystery that has long bedeviled geologists and archaeologists.2020 July 29, Franz Lidz, “Whence Came Stonehenge’s Stones? Now We Know”, in New York Times. From the entry sarsen
  • For a very long time the role of the thymus in the body was a complete mystery.2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 234. From the entry thymus
  • One of my favorite ways to improve a business is to mystery shop.2017, Mike Agugliaro, The Secrets of Business Mastery. From the entry mystery shop
  • When she’s not barista-ing, she’s writing scripts for murder mystery dinner events.2015, Richard Polt, The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist’s Companion for the 21st Century, The Countryman Press, →ISBN. From the entry barista

Meaning of mystery

  1. noun Something secret or unexplainable; an unknown.
  2. noun Someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature.
  3. noun An account, story, book, film, or play, often with the theme of crime or murder, with a surprise ending that explains all the strange events that have occurred.

Full definition of mystery

Questions about mystery in a sentence

How do you use mystery in a sentence?
Mystery is used as a noun. For example: “The truth behind the events remains a mystery.”
What is a short sentence with mystery?
“the Eleusinian mysteries”
What does mystery mean?
Mystery means something secret or unexplainable; an unknown.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mystery (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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