How to Use whodunit in a Sentence

whodunit

noun

• Lady in the Lake takes the shape of a neo-noir whodunit.
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 31 July 2024
• We'll all be headed to the movies to find out whodunit.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 19 July 2022
• It’s so easy to shut off and get sucked into the why and whodunit of it all.
  — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2021
• Here, the focus goes from a morbid game of chance to a smart whodunit.
  — Rick Bentley, kansascity, 12 Oct. 2017
• The second half of the movie is less a whodunit than a can-he-find-the-evidence-to-nail-him.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Sep. 2021
• Still, the rest of the story is as or maybe more important than the whodunit.
  — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2022
• Since that’s not in the equation, the focus goes from a morbid game of chance to a smart whodunit.
  — Rick Bentley, Detroit Free Press, 12 Oct. 2017
• And to the point where this completely eclipsed the whodunit aspect.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 11 Apr. 2024
• There's no question whodunit here: The killer is already in prison when the book begins.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 14 Jan. 2022
• Everybody loves a good whodunit, but in the case of the Book of Mormon, the mystery is more like a howhedunit.
  — Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Sep. 2020
• Below, find comedic takes on the genre or true whodunit classics.
  — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 30 June 2022
• Finally, for a whodunit slasher the pace is all over the place, and with it the excitement.
  — Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
• Glass Onion, the sequel to the hit whodunit, includes a scene that suggests that Blanc is living with a man.
  — Vulture, 16 Oct. 2022
• Everyone loves a good whodunit, and Murder Mystery on the Train takes the puzzle to the tracks.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 14 Nov. 2022
• The season then takes the form of a whodunit, as Joe seeks out the tormentor who’s setting him up by killing others in the group.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 15 Feb. 2023
• Precious little attention gets paid to the ins and outs of the whodunit itself.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
• Death on the Nile, a whodunit set on an Egyptian paddle steamer.
  — Alia Akkam, Robb Report, 11 Feb. 2022
• Needless to say, the series, which has turned into a whodunit, is about to get even more intense.
  — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 15 Sep. 2021
• Clue One of the most famous whodunits of all time is the board game Clue, and in 1985, the popular game got its own movie adaptation.
  — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2024
• This was no true-crime whodunit—and listeners just weren’t as into it.
  — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 26 Jan. 2017
• It’s an amusing whodunit that also has something to say about the red-state-blue-state divide.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2022
• As the crowd dispersed, an old Hollywood genre was revived: the whodunit.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
• Andrew is obsessed with true crime shows or any whodunits.
  — Kaya Laterman, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2023
• In short, these Bears are a mystery, but not a whodunit as much as a who'll do it, as in who'll throw the ball, who'll run the ball, who'll block, who'll tackle and who'll kick and who'll catch.
  — Bernie Lincicome, chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• And, this season, for those who glaze over upon hearing a glossary of finance terms, there’s the whodunit.
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 7 Aug. 2024
• But the delight becomes something of a chore as the antics stretch on to the point that the mystery of the whodunit becomes a tiresome afterthought.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
• Jason Bateman is about to put his spin on the ultimate whodunit.
  — Ale Russian, PEOPLE.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• And that brings us to our first puzzle, which involves a linguistic whodunit.
  — Quanta Magazine, 17 Apr. 2019
• That’s because there seems to be an abundance of projects right now geared towards those who love content based on real-life whodunits.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
• Balancing the two things that matter in a crime novel — creating a vivid world and set of characters and keeping the reader guessing about whodunit — is always a challenge.
  — Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024