How to Use enigma in a Sentence

enigma

noun

• To his friends, he was always something of an enigma.
• Even with the tests, the killings may remain an enigma.
  — oregonlive.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• The hats are as much of an enigma as the statues themselves.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 5 June 2018
• The brain is, at least to me, an enigma wrapped in a mystery.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Oct. 2019
• An enigma for the first half of the year and a killer from Wimbledon on.
  — SI.com, 23 Aug. 2017
• The mystery of Prince’s death mirrors the enigma of his life.
  — John Eligon, Serge F. Kovaleski and Joe Coscarelli, New York Times, 4 May 2016
• Those are still an enigma but thought to be a hybrid of the waking and sleeping states.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 9 May 2023
• What made the role so tricky is that Gary Hart was an enigma.
  — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 21 Nov. 2018
• This year’s team, like its new head coach, is a bit of an enigma.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2018
• The story behind the church remains an enigma, and part of its charm.
  — Celestine Bohlen, New York Times, 15 July 2019
• Roberts admits that his subject was a bit of an enigma.
  — Richard Horan, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Feb. 2023
• Here are a few of the most intriguing enigmas and cold cases of the West.
  — Nicole Clausing, Sunset Magazine, 17 Jan. 2020
• Loeb thought the radio flash was a compelling enigma—but not much more than that.
  — Katia Moskvitch, WIRED, 21 July 2019
• Despite the enigma of the man’s midsection, the date is a success.
  — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
• Basco remains for many an enigma and a symbol of the city's pain.
  — Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2019
• Mr. Girard has helped despatch them, but the enigma lives on.
  — Felipe Fernández-Armesto, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2016
• Mercury is a super dense, hot and fiery yet icy enigma.
  — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 May 2018
• Before the Apollo program, the origin of the moon was an enigma.
  — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 July 2019
• The only British politician known around the world remains an enigma.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 13 Dec. 2019
• The enigma proved confounding even in his final scenes.
  — The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2016
• But that same caution has left him an enigma both inside and outside the country.
  — Azam Ahmed, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• John Ibrahim is – amongst so many things – an enigma wrapped in a mystery.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 16 Mar. 2022
• The reasons behind the sarin gas attack remain an enigma.
  — Washington Post, 6 July 2018
• Maybe that's why, since humans have been on Earth, the sea has been an enigma to us.
  — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2022
• One of the strangest and least-studied enigmas, though, is how tattoos survive at all.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2023
• At the heart of this enigma is the fact that purpose, much like a unicorn, is revered and sought after but rarely seen in its true form.
  — Ira Wolfe, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• Brand trips have long been a staple — and an enigma — on our social media feeds.
  — Kailynn Johnson, refinery29.com, 9 May 2023
• Aside from her academic work, Coan seems to be somewhat of an enigma.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 May 2019
• A year ago Clayton Wilcox came to Charlotte as an enigma.
  — Ann Doss Helms, charlotteobserver, 12 July 2018
• But her inner life and opinions remained mostly an enigma.
  — Jill Lawless, ajc, 8 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024