How to Use enigmatic in a Sentence

enigmatic

adjective

• You'll recognize them by their enigmatic smile and faraway look as they jog, skate, commute, or wander the aisles of the supermarket.
  — Consumer Reports, December 2005
• That’s one of the most enigmatic parts of the whole puzzle.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Nov. 2023
• The concept, the voices, the scope of the record is enigmatic.
  — Ron Hart, Billboard, 11 Apr. 2018
• True to Banksy form, the posts were enigmatic when in came to dates and a venue for the show.
  — Doug George, chicagotribune.com, 23 Apr. 2021
• The other part is how enigmatic the Hawks have been on the road.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 14 Apr. 2022
• Barden holds her own against the two as the enigmatic Sky.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2020
• But now the war is ending, and those words are enigmatic.
  — Timothy Kudo, Star Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
• Even the charm of an enigmatic robo-kid only goes so far.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Sep. 2023
• Kilmer — enigmatic to the rest of us — is portrayed as a quirky soul.
  — Mark Kennedy, Star Tribune, 20 July 2021
• His lyrics can be quite enigmatic, as can be the titles.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2021
• For those in the know, the ranch also serves as sort of a memorial to its enigmatic founder.
  — John MacCormack, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Feb. 2018
• The enigmatic fossil had to wait for technology to catch up to it.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Oct. 2022
• Whitley has gone from the game's top pitching prospect to its most enigmatic.
  — Dave Clark, The Enquirer, 16 July 2022
• Like the best puzzles in nature, the journey to the truth behind this enigmatic star is far from over.
  — Kimberly Cartier, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
• The best word to describe their opening eight games: enigmatic.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2019
• But shrouded in a kind of weird, enigmatic, veneer of some sort.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Feb. 2017
• Meltzer’s portrait of the enigmatic Weiss makes the book grippy and readable.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 Dec. 2023
• Jasper Johns was making enigmatic bronze casts of beer cans.
  — Sasha Weiss Sasha Weiss Photographs By Justin French Nick Haramis Photographs By Lise Sarfati Styled By Suzanne Koller Adam Bradley Photographs By D’angelo Lovell Williams Styled By Ian Bradley Susan Dominus Photographs By Luis Alberto Rodriguez Styled By Charlotte Collet, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
• Sometimes the motives of mass shooters are enigmatic, but not in this case.
  — Robert J. Spitzer, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Feb. 2018
• Black holes are enigmatic and require a different kind of thinking in the first place.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 7 Dec. 2020
• Now, new camera trap footage gives a rare glimpse into the life of this enigmatic critter.
  — National Geographic, 14 June 2018
• His films are grand in scope, enigmatic in meaning and rarely boring.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 July 2022
• That achiote twang, that textbook char, that rough chop, that enigmatic green sauce.
  — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 30 July 2020
• The answers to these riddles were no less enigmatic after oral arguments than at the start.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 30 Nov. 2022
• This detail, the most enigmatic of all, might be the easiest to explain.
  — Douglas Preston, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
• The oboe proves an excellent conduit for such enigmatic games.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• Mature whitetails that live in large tracts of roadless terrain can be enigmatic, even to the hunters who chase them.
  — Gerry Bethge, Outdoor Life, 18 Feb. 2020
• The idyllic facade of a peaceful suburb begins to crack when an enigmatic artist and her daughter move to town.
  — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2020
• At least the text doesn’t employ some of the more enigmatic street names, like Moyamensing.
  — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• The text is an enigmatic and poignant expression of a self that feels itself unreal.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2020

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