How to Use riddle in a Sentence

riddle

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• There are two kinds of people in the world: those who love a good joke and those who love a good riddle.
  — Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 31 Oct. 2022
• Nowhere is that riddle harder to solve than in greater San Diego.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2023
• But the show, at its core, is a mystery—a piquant riddle for Mark and the viewers to solve.
  — The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
• To many of us, this isn’t a question so much as a riddle, like a Buddhist kōan.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 27 Jan. 2024
• What the Bears can do to solve the quarterback riddle remains to be seen.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 24 Feb. 2021
• The pamphlet acts as a game board and map to the seven stations across the Land Lab, each marked by a sign and a riddle.
  — oregonlive, 22 July 2022
• By then the man had disappeared into the landscape, like the last line of a riddle.
  — Molly Langmuir, Rolling Stone, 2 Feb. 2024
• Here’s a riddle for you: SMU didn’t play this past weekend, but the Mustangs still won.
  — Dallas News, 3 Oct. 2022
• Who lives, who dies; who suffers, who prospers: The world is a riddle.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2023
• The Lock Guests will need to solve a riddle before gaining entrance to this speakeasy.
  — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
• And these puzzles aren’t just fun for kids, there are plenty of hard riddles that will even stump adults.
  — Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 4 Sep. 2023
• The hawthorn tree outside reveals the answer to the riddle from the winter before: the flowers are red.
  — Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• But someone may have to provide Kidd with the answers to the Doncic-Kristaps Porzingis riddle.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2021
• For the most famous cocktail in the world, the martini remains a riddle.
  — Josh Condon, Robb Report, 24 July 2022
• Darius is a riddle, wrapped in an enigma, buried under a pile of jollof.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2022
• The pull of tides and the sway of nature were easier to decipher than the riddle within.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Chicago Tribune, 24 Dec. 2022
• Luis Enrique will do well to find a solution to that riddle.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• Then, forgery was fun, like a challenging puzzle or a riddle to solve.
  — Tony Tetro, Town & Country, 22 Nov. 2022
• The boy forges a friendship with the man, Treacle Walker, who speaks in rhymes and riddles and travels with a magic chest.
  — The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• In The Salesman, the information was given in a way to make a mystery, a riddle.
  — Vulture, 22 Feb. 2022
• Every stroke appeared to him anew, each an enigma with a fresh riddle.
  — Jing Tsu, Wired, 23 Jan. 2022
• One of the great economic riddles of the moment is whether, and how, workers will return to the office with the end of the Covid emergency.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 16 Oct. 2023
• But a riddle is a statement or question that has multiple meanings and needs to be solved.
  — Christina Montoya Fiedler, Good Housekeeping, 17 Aug. 2022
• At each stop, participants use a smartphone or tablet to solve a riddle, do a dare, and get clues to solve the overall mystery.
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 31 July 2022
• The sparrows’s only choice to set themselves free is to solve a riddle and find the Great Jewel, which will require teamwork, trust and most of all spork skills.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 27 Oct. 2021
• It’s said this riddle was created by Albert Einstein—hence the name.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• And with the pearlescent base color plus the glint of pink glitter coating her nails, the riddle becomes much more enticing.
  — Chelsea Avila, Allure, 9 Jan. 2023
• The struggle to stay cool in summertime heat is a riddle that's been handed down for millennia.
  — Lynn Redmile, Good Housekeeping, 27 Mar. 2023
• Which is what makes President Biden’s current stance a riddle.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 21 Jan. 2023
• Back to even the very beginning of the band, there’s always been these other people who influence us and help solve riddles.
  — Ryan Leas, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2023

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riddle

2 of 2 verb

• In Spain, though, the Dutch are getting a rival that shrugged off its no-show against Japan and riddled the Swiss.
  — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
• From one end to the other, shops were riddled with bullets.
  — Aref Tufaha and Josef Federman, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2023
• Back with Conrad on the beach, Belly is riddled with guilt.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 14 July 2023
• And that may be the tone for a week still riddled with uncertainty.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2023
• The car’s windows were shattered, the car riddled with bullet holes.
  — Savannaheadens, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• Photographs taken by The Times at the scene show the car riddled with bullet holes.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• Her memoir is riddled with stories from this era, both good and bad.
  — Grace Edquist, Vogue, 30 Mar. 2024
• The center of the park, Island in the Sky, is a massive, flat mesa riddled with panoramic overlooks.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 26 Jan. 2024
• That still doesn’t mean it’s riddled by drugs and everything.
  — Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 19 Feb. 2024
• The goal is to make the process easier, but the path there is riddled with complications.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2023
• As is always the case with the creative process, the journey from girl to woman can be riddled with failure.
  — Bekah Waalkes, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
• The glass entrance to the kibbutz dining hall is riddled with bullet holes.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2023
• The front of the single-family home was riddled with bullet holes.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 13 July 2023
• The lack of a Black character doesn’t mean a work isn’t riddled with anxieties about the presence of the other.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023
• There’s a safety problem: The state is riddled with earthquake faults.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• Their bodies were later found, beaten and riddled with bullets, in a ditch by the road.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• The windows of the bus had been blown out, and its sides, riddled with bullet holes, gave it the appearance of a honeycomb.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
• The move was the latest setback in the case riddled with complications.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 June 2023
• Give your guests the creeps by riddling your wreath with spiders and cobwebs or centering it with a skull.
  — Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Oct. 2023
• The app has been riddled with glitches and setbacks for asylum seekers since it was rolled out.
  — The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2023
• In the same vein, your characters seem to have a rhythm or heartbeat riddled with oddities and quirks.
  — Iman Milner, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2023
• But inside your head, you’re riddled with fears, what-ifs, and negative thoughts.
  — Marisa Cohen, Good Housekeeping, 26 Mar. 2023
• The reason for these horrific events remained vague and riddled with doubt.
  — Karl Vick, TIME, 6 Oct. 2023
• Since the shoots grow considerably faster than the lawn, my front yard looks like it is constantly riddled with weeds.
  — oregonlive, 16 Apr. 2023
• Then on March 6 eight teenagers waiting to take a city bus home after school were shot, leaving a bus riddled with bullet holes.
  — Philip Marcelo, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2024
• Holbrook’s body is riddled with tumors that invade her brain, press against her spine and crowd her lungs — more than a hundred in all.
  — Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 4 Feb. 2024
• But inside, shards of glass can be seen on the apartment's carpeted floor, and bullet holes riddle the curtains.
  — Tessa Duvall, The Courier-Journal, 9 July 2020
• The area has been riddled with crime, prompting mayor Michelle Wu to begin the process of dissolving the tent encampment, a process which will start on Nov. 1.
  — Brianna Herlihy, Fox News, 31 Oct. 2023
• That’s been true even as the Red Sox rotation has been riddled by injuries, forcing the team to piece together bullpen games.
  — Varun Shankar, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
• According to Jovani, the way of dress is riddled with aristocratic and military-inspired details.
  — Shelby Ying Hyde, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024