How to Use mysterious in a Sentence

mysterious

adjective

• A mysterious illness has been spreading through the city.
• We heard a mysterious noise outside our tent.
• There's something mysterious about that old woman.
• Her behavior was very mysterious.
• He died under mysterious circumstances.
• In the middle of his set, though, a mysterious guest appeared.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 8 Sep. 2023
• Things take a turn for the worse when a mysterious hermit who haunts the forest invades their home.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• By the time people reach Mars, the weather will be less mysterious.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 8 May 2023
• Back then, the APS was this mysterious thing that occupied his time and his mind.
  — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 4 May 2023
• Spells, a race through time, and a battle to stop mysterious forces follow.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 July 2023
• Along the way, Violet meets a witch named Hazel (Fisher), who guides the young girl to a mysterious portal to learn about her future.
  — Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 22 July 2023
• Plot details for the new project remain as mysterious as the name of Grogu’s species, but the studio announced Jon Favreau will direct.
  — Daniel S. Levine, Peoplemag, 9 Jan. 2024
• Likely remains of the mysterious species have also now been found in northern Kenya, Ethiopia and South Africa.
  — Tree Meinch, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2023
• Among the few clues investigators found at the scene were a small drop of blood and reports of a mysterious silver van.
  — Andrew Paparella, ABC News, 2 Feb. 2024
• Meanwhile, rats scurry by and some mysterious black sludge oozes out of the walls—maybe from the same holes that floodwaters shot out of today.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2023
• For one thing, an alien culture in which the frankness and frisson of New York are replaced with mysterious rules and empty niceties.
  — Boris Kachka, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
• In one popular tale, a young girl and a maid both died of mysterious causes in one of the hotel suites in the early 20th century.
  — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 27 Aug. 2023
• Her hand movements cued the doctor to a mysterious disease.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• The story sees a mysterious woman team up with a man whose daughter was killed and who is now seeking revenge.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 26 Oct. 2023
• For the first few episodes, the story seems overly fragmented and mysterious.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2023
• Over billions of years, convection in Earth’s mantle would have gathered some of Theia’s pieces into the two mysterious lumps on the surface of the core.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
• The disappearance of David Taylor is arguably the most mysterious case in the series.
  — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 13 May 2023
• There is a scene in Priscilla in which, at Elvis’s urging, Priscilla takes a mysterious pill to help her sleep only to wake up two days later.
  — Shannon Carlin, TIME, 3 Nov. 2023
• That is until mysterious people show up and try to ruin her.
  — Maggie Horton, Country Living, 5 July 2023
• The Queen Charlotte prequel also hints at a mysterious illness when the young king collapses in severe pain at the end of the second episode.
  — Radhika Menon, ELLE, 5 May 2023
• The film, which is set to be completed by early 2024, follows a group of surfer friends looking out for waves in a mysterious island that’s been erased from all maps.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 28 Aug. 2023
• And amid all of that, there are clips from the daily life of Geovanny Marroquin, one of the young people left tuba-less after the mysterious thefts.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023
• Based on a series of novels by Tony Hillerman, the show takes us back to the ‘70s and Season 2 involves a mysterious blonde man who has been killing people on the reservation.
  — Mike Rose, cleveland, 30 July 2023
• Each engaging; each mysterious; each stranger than the next.
  — Kyle Dunn’s Night Fever, Vulture, 11 May 2023
• Wonder Bread signs seem to signal that the mysterious food source of America’s past might be angling for a comeback.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024