How to Use mystery in a Sentence

mystery

noun

• In the days since, Mr. Prigozhin’s status has been a mystery.
  — Paul Sonne, New York Times, 10 July 2023
• Even with all the time that's gone by since his death, there's still an air of mystery around him.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 9 Jan. 2024
• Those, dear friends, are the mysteries of life that no scan can tell us.
  — Max Berlinger, Robb Report, 18 Apr. 2024
• The biggest mystery of the night involved Rage Against the Machine.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2023
• Yet what that two thirds of the universe was remained a mystery.
  — Richard Panek, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
• The shield of mystery around Opus Dei still needs to be fully removed.
  — Longreads, 22 Mar. 2024
• Are there treatments for dogs who have the mystery illness?
  — Gina Martinez, CBS News, 14 Dec. 2023
• The images, which leave Rocky's little face a mystery, were captioned with his name and a black heart.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 23 Dec. 2023
• The reason for this abrupt change remains a mystery, a classic case of a bride being, well, a bride.
  — Ruhama Wolle, Glamour, 12 Sep. 2023
• For a few days after the auction, the ring’s buyer remained a mystery.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
• There’s some fun mystery in that — the mystery of discovering what the band is going to play.
  — Daniel Kohn, Spin, 18 Sep. 2023
• And for more than a month, their identities, and the circumstances of their deaths, remained a mystery.
  — Matina Stevis-Gridneff, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
• The larger mysteries of the show are subservient to the arc of the central relationship.
  — Ben Rosenstock, TIME, 2 Feb. 2024
• End of carousel The core mystery of the series turns out not to be the murder the detectives are re-litigating.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024
• The show is a delight – bright, bouncy and even though there is a bit of mystery tucked away in there, oodles of happiness.
  — David Lyman, The Enquirer, 11 Jan. 2024
• To understand the magic and mystery of Carrara marble, I was told to start with a ride up a mountain.
  — Elaine Sciolino, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
• One of the greatest enduring mysteries is the fate of beloved pilot Amelia Earhart.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
• Despite knowing where the bodies were found, who those people were is a mystery.
  — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2023
• Beatles fans flocked to help track down the guitar — and return it to its famous owner — as part of a project set up to solve the mystery.
  — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
• Several rewards were offered over the years in hopes of cracking the mystery.
  — Steve Karnowski, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
• The mysteries are fun but almost beside the point, and red herrings can take entire episodes.
  — Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 13 Apr. 2024
• The two competing reporters team up in an effort to solve the mystery of a train derailment but in the process, find romance.
  — Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023
• Next to her was 8-year-old Layla, who’d just renewed a Batman mystery, and their mom, Tricia.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2023
• Or maybe we’re seduced by the aura of mystery, of hidden history, the ghosts of lives obscured by time.
  — Peter Terzian, Travel + Leisure, 11 July 2023
• The Ukrainian refugee, whose shyness creates a mystery about him to teammates, makes plenty of noise inside the lines.
  — Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 29 Apr. 2024
• This work stemmed from the mystery of how quantum theory itself works.
  — Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 29 Aug. 2023
• Joey Graziadei finally put an end to the mystery that left many fans puzzled as to why his eyes are yellow.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2024
• But that’s about all anyone can confidently say about Psyche—and the mystery is the essence of the mission’s appeal.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 13 Oct. 2023
• True, the insights gleaned from the tiny sample have not yet unraveled the mysteries of autism, schizophrenia, or depression.
  — Adam Piore — Boston Globe, STAT, 10 May 2024
• Lippman’s page-turning 2019 novel became a best-seller upon its release, due to both the novel’s resonant themes and the mystery’s twist.
  — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 8 May 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024