How to use riddle in a sentence

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• The report was riddled with so much corporate doublespeak that it was impossible to interpret.From the entry doublespeak
• The minister claimed that the old benefits system was riddled with abuse and fraud.From the entry riddled
• Their proposed explanation at the time was riddled with teleology.From the entry teleology
• He who guesses the riddle shall have the ring.From the entry guess
• Most Google Docs use Times New Roman even though they are written by middle schoolers and riddled with grammatical errors.From the entry Google Doc
• The riddle will be solved yet.From the entry yet
• Many pilots' lives were saved during World War II by salf-sealing gas tanks that kept their planes from becoming fireballs when riddled with bullets.From the entry self-sealing
• But like Oedipus and Croesus before him, Macbeth missolves the riddles from the future, charging into doom.2022, Angus Fletcher, Wonderworks: Literary Invention and the Science of Stories, page 87. From the entry missolve
• "If you don't tell a riddle," said Hookeye, "you might as well admit you're a valraven.2016, George Hagen, Gabriel Finley and the Raven's Riddle, Yearling, →ISBN, page 108. From the entry valraven
• Here’s a riddle: What do you call a dollop of cookie dough hugged by fudgy brownie batter?2016, Sheila G. Mains, Sheila G’s Butter & Chocolate: 101 Creative Sweets and Treats Using Brownie Batter, Lanham, Md.: Kyle Books, →ISBN…. From the entry brown sugary
• The photo-sharing site was riddled with fake accounts that liked, followed and hashtagged out the wazoo.2015 July 2, Julia Carpenter, “Can we ever beat the bots? Not on Instagram.”, in The Washington Post. From the entry out the wazoo
• With two aircraft riddled with hits and no longer flyworthy, the balance four flights were called off.2010, Raj K. Mehta, Lost Victory. From the entry flyworthy
• Everyday language itself is riddled with metaphors, albeit often rather faded or worn ones.1996, Michael Toolan, “Introduction”, in Total Speech: An Integrational Linguistic Approach to Language (Post-Contemporary Interventions)…. From the entry metaphoricality
• The wizard gazed at him conjecturingly, as if he were a riddle on some dusty parchment.1979, Patricia A. McKillip, Riddle of Stars, Garden City, N.Y.: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., page 434. From the entry conjecturingly
• For a children's surgeon every case is a bodyful of riddles.1966, Soviet Life - Issues 112-123. From the entry bodyful
• She seemed to me an aunt who was talking in riddles.1954, P.G. Wodehouse, Bertie Wooster Sees It Through, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 86. From the entry salt the mine
• The Time-eaten names of the Consuls in that Monumentum Ancyranum above-mentioned, as riddled out by T.L.1910, James Augustus Henry Murray (editor), A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles - Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected…. From the entry time-eaten
• Armado said, “Here is some enigma, some riddle.2016, David Bruce, William Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labor’s Lost”: A Retelling in Prose, Lulu, →ISBN, page 57. From the entry l'envoi
• This book takes readers into the hitherto unexplored undercurrents of one of the so-called minor genres of African orature—riddles.2015 April, Akíntúndé Akínyẹmí, “Introduction”, in Orature and Yorùbá Riddles, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 1. From the entry orature
• In gamecraft, the Garou compete in a contest of skill or wits: a riddle contest, a chess match or the like.1995, Campbell, Savage Attack, page 90. From the entry gamecraft
• The second part of the testing , the riddles , seem to be a more personal and human exchange .1993, Barbara Black Koltuv, Solomon & Sheba: Inner Marriage and Individuation, Nicholas-Hays, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 80. From the entry gallantry
• Although Kirchofs technique is fluid, it can also become rather sloppy, riddled with far too many misplucked notes.1991, Musical America - Volume 111. From the entry mispluck
• The centuries-old mystery of the cold light produced by the Firefly and the Glow-Worm is still partially a riddle.1961, Jean-Henri Fabre, Edwin Way Teale (contributor), The Insect World of J. Henri Fabre in the Translation of Alexander Teixeira de…. From the entry cold light
• Riddle had behaved unmanly in the matter.1914, Jeff C. Davis Riddle, The Indian history of the Modoc war, and the causes that led to it. From the entry unmanly
• "Well, gentlemen, have I read you the riddle aright, or is there any point which you would query?"1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry aright
• One of the diplomats mused, half-jokingly, that Britons were perhaps most missed for their fine command of English, leaving EU documents riddled with stilted euro-speak.2026 June 20, “Would the EU take Britain back?”, in afp. From the entry Eurospeak
• Lately, it seems like every corner of the internet is riddled with people "maxxing", or maximizing, one aspect of life or another.2026 May 6, Kristine Thomason, “No More Everythingmaxxing: Why I'm "Minusing"”, in POPSUGAR, archived from the original on 28 May 2026. From the entry healthmaxxing
• The climate crisis is not, in fact, a mystery or a riddle we haven’t yet solved due to insufficiently robust data sets.2023 May 8, Naomi Klein, “AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry climate crisis
• Goethe's play is in fact modeled after Shakespeare's tragedy, and the last act is riddled with references to the cemetery scene from Hamlet.2014, Katalin Nun, Jon Stewart, editors, Kierkegaard's Literary Figures and Motifs: Tome I: Agamemnon to Guadalquivir (Kirkegaard…. From the entry Sturm und Drang
• The barber laughs so hard at the simple answer to the riddle that Logan fears for his chances of a steady-handed shave.2012, Ross Bentley-Davies, Walkers Creek: A Western, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry steady-handed
• The evidence they produced consisted of feathers, insects, clams, rats, and other things riddled with germs and allegedly dropped from American planes.1968, Robert Conquest, The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties, Macmillan Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 493. From the entry confession
• This riddle was quite beyond Mrs.1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 42. From the entry vauntingly

Meaning of riddle

1. noun A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
2. noun An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
3. verb To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.

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Questions about riddle in a sentence

How do you use riddle in a sentence?

Riddle is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Here's a riddle: It's black, and white, and red all over. What is it?”

What is a short sentence with riddle?

“Riddle me this.”

What does riddle mean?

Riddle means a verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.