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.
• There’s no point trying to be coy or cryptic about this stuff.
  — Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 31 May 2026
• Eliot knew the truth of this lovely and cryptic phrase all too well.
  — Michelle Taylor, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2020
• What is your cryptic one-sentence tease for the third episode?
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 28 Oct. 2020
• His cryptic tweet was sent out on the same day the film hit theaters.
  — Gabrielle Chung, PEOPLE.com, 23 July 2021
• Its world is dark and cryptic, both a place to explore and a puzzle to pick apart.
  — Brandon Widder, The Verge, 14 June 2023
• My notebook and pen are always close by, but my notes wind up as cryptic as his movies.
  — Irina Dumitrescu, Longreads, 20 Aug. 2020
• All of these cryptic messages have us in a fever-pitch over season 5.
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 25 Sep. 2022
• And Chen Moonves has not been tweeting out any cryptic clues.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Jan. 2023
• The three-page letter is somewhat cryptic.
  — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 26 Mar. 2026
• The cryptic message served as a caption to a carousel of photos.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2025
• Musk is known for setting the internet ablaze with his cryptic tweets.
  — Michelle Toh, CNN, 2 Nov. 2021
• Fans and friends alike can’t get enough of the abstract albeit cryptic cover art.
  — Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 19 Dec. 2024
• Grande appears to confirm via a series of cryptic tweets, likes, and replies.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 14 July 2018
• 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
• But once again, Swift's overly cryptic clues proved no match for her fandom of sleuths.
  — Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 26 Nov. 2020
• After all, there are so many mysteries and most of the clues up this point have been cryptic at best.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
• The artist’s devoted fans were quick to pounce on the cryptic post with jokes, questions and more.
  — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2022
• Bongino is far from the first official to drop a cryptic message ahead of big moves.
  — Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 26 July 2025
• Why don’t researchers know much about this cryptic society?
  — Gina Park, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2025
• Tell me more about the album’s title—is it supposed to be a little cryptic?
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2025
• And finally, how about a cryptic hint about Toby in the episodes to come?
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 2 Oct. 2020
• Watch Gaga refuse to comment on her cryptic posts and pass out popcorn below.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 23 Sep. 2024
• Or perhaps there will be another cryptic tweet.
  — Zach Berman, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
• Or perhaps there will be another cryptic tweet.
  — Zach Berman, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
• The network released a teaser trailer as well as a cryptic poster.
  — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 23 Dec. 2022
• The announcement came in the form of a somewhat cryptic message from the state’s courts.
  — Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 13 May 2025
• Pinkett Smith spoke out following the claims in a cryptic tweet.
  — Claudia Harmata, PEOPLE.com, 9 July 2020
• Of course, this could be a cryptic little twist from that old trickster, Grammer.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 10 July 2021
• The flier for downtown Phoenix's most cryptic bar is filled with buzzwords.
  — Kellie Hwang, azcentral, 12 June 2018