How to Use cryptic in a Sentence

cryptic

adjective

• His instructions were cryptic. He said only to wait until we felt certain the answer was clear.
• 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
• Its world is dark and cryptic, both a place to explore and a puzzle to pick apart.
  — Brandon Widder, The Verge, 14 June 2023
• 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
• The title is cryptic, and the trailer mostly avoids imagery from anything past the first act.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Zahau’s hands and feet were bound, a T-shirt was stuffed into her mouth and a cryptic message was scrawled in black paint on the bedroom door.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022
• But there was a cryptic teaser of the new season, which included maybe 10 seconds of footage.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Nov. 2023
• There are 15 distinct videos, some more cryptic than others.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
• If anything, this latest dust-up adds to her cryptic image.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 15 Aug. 2023
• Degas had a painful, cryptic crush on Manet the curators ought to have developed.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• Tiger Woods could be more determined, though, given his cryptic tweet from almost a week ago at this point.
  — Jon Hoefling, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024
• Lucy also gets a cryptic warning from the head in a jar, who peers into the bone glass only to exclaim something is wrong and The Eternal is now trapped.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 14 Feb. 2023
• Here’s more about one of Indiana’s more cryptic aquatic species.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Aug. 2023
• Not much is known about the Avars, a cryptic people who helped end the Roman Empire, then vanished from history.
  — Bydavid Grimm, science.org, 14 Dec. 2022
• Within minutes of the 3 p.m. CT deadline passing, Cooks hopped on social media and fired off a cryptic tweet.
  — Josh Criswell, Chron, 2 Nov. 2022
• And cryptic paintings by Salomón Huerta from the early 2000s reveal only the back of his sitters’ heads, denying the gaze of the viewer.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
• Both Mowry and Hardrict shared cryptic posts across social media after the breakup was publicized.
  — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 5 Oct. 2022
• During the process, Zodiac keeps killing and taunts the authorities with cryptic messages and phone calls.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 12 Oct. 2022
• There's also The Bachelorette, which has all of the sudden become the most dramatic show ever thanks to Jesse Palmer's cryptic message at the end of last week's episode.
  — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 11 Sep. 2022
• Johnson teased the surprise on her Instagram Story on Sunday with cryptic text over a black screen.
  — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2023
• The Ole Miss football coach pressed send on a Monday night message that included four cryptic emojis.
  — Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2022
• Puma announced the partnership's return in a cryptic Instagram post back in March.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024