How to Use enigma in a Sentence

enigma

noun

• To his friends, he was always something of an enigma.
• 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
• This varied output has contributed to the sense of Coppola as an enigma, with his incredible 1970s work set apart from the rest of his films.
  — Tom Brueggemann, IndieWire, 27 Sep. 2024
• There are mysteries — plenty of them, piling enigma on top of inscrutability — but no secrets.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024