How to Use enigma in a Sentence
enigma
noun- To his friends, he was always something of an enigma.
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So understanding the enigma at the center of their story is a complicated facet of the series.
— Hunter Ingram, Variety, 15 Oct. 2024 -
Answers are not forthcoming, but the enigma of Miss Flower is never less than intoxicating.
— Damon Wise, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2024 -
The brain is, at least to me, an enigma wrapped in a mystery.
— Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Oct. 2019 -
Even with the tests, the killings may remain an enigma.
— oregonlive.com, 22 Aug. 2019 -
What made the role so tricky is that Gary Hart was an enigma.
— Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 21 Nov. 2018 -
An enigma for the first half of the year and a killer from Wimbledon on.
— SI.com, 23 Aug. 2017 -
The mystery of Prince’s death mirrors the enigma of his life.
— John Eligon, Serge F. Kovaleski and Joe Coscarelli, New York Times, 4 May 2016 -
The hats are as much of an enigma as the statues themselves.
— Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 5 June 2018 -
This year’s team, like its new head coach, is a bit of an enigma.
— Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2018 -
Mr. Girard has helped despatch them, but the enigma lives on.
— Felipe Fernández-Armesto, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2016 -
Here are a few of the most intriguing enigmas and cold cases of the West.
— Nicole Clausing, Sunset Magazine, 17 Jan. 2020 -
Maybe that's why, since humans have been on Earth, the sea has been an enigma to us.
— Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2022 -
John Ibrahim is – amongst so many things – an enigma wrapped in a mystery.
— Patrick Frater, Variety, 16 Mar. 2022 -
The story behind the church remains an enigma, and part of its charm.
— Celestine Bohlen, New York Times, 15 July 2019 -
Despite the enigma of the man’s midsection, the date is a success.
— New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021 -
Those are still an enigma but thought to be a hybrid of the waking and sleeping states.
— Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 9 May 2023 -
It’s hard to find a bigger enigma in the Bay Area than the football team at St. Francis.
— Vytas Mazeika, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2019 -
Loeb thought the radio flash was a compelling enigma—but not much more than that.
— Katia Moskvitch, WIRED, 21 July 2019 -
Before the Apollo program, the origin of the moon was an enigma.
— Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 July 2019 -
The target of Ballmer’s jibe, Amazon.com, was indeed an enigma.
— Washington Post, 7 May 2021 -
In his first 15 years on the high court, Stevens was often described as an enigma and quirky.
— Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2019 -
Wilson wasn’t among the 86 players the Bucks worked out this spring and was something of an enigma in the weeks leading up to the draft.
— Gary D'amato, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 June 2017 -
What this is supposed to mean in policy terms is an enigma, to say the least.
— Yuen Yuen Ang, Foreign Affairs, 22 May 2019 -
The two women had long been an enigma in the South Side’s Chatham neighborhood.
— Lolly Bowean, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2018 -
Basco remains for many an enigma and a symbol of the city's pain.
— Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2019 -
Roberts admits that his subject was a bit of an enigma.
— Richard Horan, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Feb. 2023 -
One of the strangest and least-studied enigmas, though, is how tattoos survive at all.
— Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2023 -
The songs the band sings and plays, including Dylan’s own numbers, are cast in a rhetoric of enigma.
— Ralph J. Gleason, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Oct. 2017 -
The only British politician known around the world remains an enigma.
— Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 13 Dec. 2019
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