How to Use cryptic in a Sentence

cryptic

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• His instructions were cryptic. He said only to wait until we felt certain the answer was clear.
• His cryptic tweet was sent out on the same day the film hit theaters.
  — Gabrielle Chung, PEOPLE.com, 23 July 2021
• Eliot knew the truth of this lovely and cryptic phrase all too well.
  — Michelle Taylor, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2020
• In the days and weeks before the killings, Travieso made cryptic posts on his Facebook page.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 15 Dec. 2023
• For her part, the pop-punk princess left a cryptic comment on the post in the form of three black heart emojis.
  — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 4 Apr. 2023
• And a Roger Stone aide makes a (not-so) cryptic comment.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2022
• Its world is dark and cryptic, both a place to explore and a puzzle to pick apart.
  — Brandon Widder, The Verge, 14 June 2023
• That math is a bunch of cryptic symbols on a piece of paper.
  — Kelsey Houston-Edwards, WIRED, 8 Dec. 2024
• The artist’s devoted fans were quick to pounce on the cryptic post with jokes, questions and more.
  — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2022
• And Chen Moonves has not been tweeting out any cryptic clues.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Jan. 2023
• This cryptic message is not the only mystery about the firm.
  — Javier Paz, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• The band teased the album last month with a cryptic ad in the local paper Hackney Gazette.
  — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 6 Sep. 2023
• All of these cryptic messages have us in a fever-pitch over season 5.
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 25 Sep. 2022
• Asked about the player's status, Hill was a bit cryptic.
  — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 18 Aug. 2021
• After all, there are so many mysteries and most of the clues up this point have been cryptic at best.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
• That was the reason for the cryptic call in the spring of 1980: to enlist help from an old colleague who wouldn’t ask too many questions.
  — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2020
• For the best part of a month, the family has teased the launch in cryptic posts that offer little detail.
  — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2024
• Fans and friends alike can’t get enough of the abstract albeit cryptic cover art.
  — Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 19 Dec. 2024
• But once again, Swift's overly cryptic clues proved no match for her fandom of sleuths.
  — Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 26 Nov. 2020
• The title is cryptic, and the trailer mostly avoids imagery from anything past the first act.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2022
• As Gamache races to decode an unsettling break-in, a cryptic note, and a hit-and-run, a massive threat lurks.
  — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Oct. 2024
• Tell me more about the album’s title—is it supposed to be a little cryptic?
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2025
• Prescott, who was the center of a cryptic tweet from the Cowboys this week, is looking to be on the field for Game 3 of the preseason schedule.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 13 Aug. 2021
• Bohle has missed the last handful of practices and Edwards was a bit cryptic when asked what ailment has been the issue.
  — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 27 Aug. 2022
• Musk is known for setting the internet ablaze with his cryptic tweets.
  — Michelle Toh, CNN, 2 Nov. 2021
• Of course, this could be a cryptic little twist from that old trickster, Grammer.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 10 July 2021
• The network released a teaser trailer as well as a cryptic poster.
  — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 23 Dec. 2022
• With no screen, the poor AI Pin can only communicate to the outside world via a cryptic light show.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2023
• Watch Gaga refuse to comment on her cryptic posts and pass out popcorn below.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 23 Sep. 2024
• Prologue was first announced in 2019 with a cryptic trailer that showed a first-person view of a storm crashing through a dark forest.
  — Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 24 Mar 2025