How to Use mystery in a Sentence
mystery
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In the days since, Mr. Prigozhin’s status has been a mystery.
—Paul Sonne, New York Times, 10 July 2023
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Even with all the time that's gone by since his death, there's still an air of mystery around him.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 9 Jan. 2024
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Those, dear friends, are the mysteries of life that no scan can tell us.
—Max Berlinger, Robb Report, 18 Apr. 2024
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The biggest mystery of the night involved Rage Against the Machine.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2023
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Yet what that two thirds of the universe was remained a mystery.
—Richard Panek, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
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The shield of mystery around Opus Dei still needs to be fully removed.
—Longreads, 22 Mar. 2024
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Are there treatments for dogs who have the mystery illness?
—Gina Martinez, CBS News, 14 Dec. 2023
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The images, which leave Rocky's little face a mystery, were captioned with his name and a black heart.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 23 Dec. 2023
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The reason for this abrupt change remains a mystery, a classic case of a bride being, well, a bride.
—Ruhama Wolle, Glamour, 12 Sep. 2023
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For a few days after the auction, the ring’s buyer remained a mystery.
—Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
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There’s some fun mystery in that — the mystery of discovering what the band is going to play.
—Daniel Kohn, Spin, 18 Sep. 2023
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And for more than a month, their identities, and the circumstances of their deaths, remained a mystery.
—Matina Stevis-Gridneff, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
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The larger mysteries of the show are subservient to the arc of the central relationship.
—Ben Rosenstock, TIME, 2 Feb. 2024
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End of carousel The core mystery of the series turns out not to be the murder the detectives are re-litigating.
—Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024
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The show is a delight – bright, bouncy and even though there is a bit of mystery tucked away in there, oodles of happiness.
—David Lyman, The Enquirer, 11 Jan. 2024
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To understand the magic and mystery of Carrara marble, I was told to start with a ride up a mountain.
—Elaine Sciolino, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
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One of the greatest enduring mysteries is the fate of beloved pilot Amelia Earhart.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
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Despite knowing where the bodies were found, who those people were is a mystery.
—Joe Heim, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2023
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Beatles fans flocked to help track down the guitar — and return it to its famous owner — as part of a project set up to solve the mystery.
—Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
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Several rewards were offered over the years in hopes of cracking the mystery.
—Steve Karnowski, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
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The mysteries are fun but almost beside the point, and red herrings can take entire episodes.
—Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 13 Apr. 2024
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The two competing reporters team up in an effort to solve the mystery of a train derailment but in the process, find romance.
—Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023
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Next to her was 8-year-old Layla, who’d just renewed a Batman mystery, and their mom, Tricia.
—Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2023
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Or maybe we’re seduced by the aura of mystery, of hidden history, the ghosts of lives obscured by time.
—Peter Terzian, Travel + Leisure, 11 July 2023
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The Ukrainian refugee, whose shyness creates a mystery about him to teammates, makes plenty of noise inside the lines.
—Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 29 Apr. 2024
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This work stemmed from the mystery of how quantum theory itself works.
—Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 29 Aug. 2023
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My time in the cave and, now, beneath this night sky showed me the price of my impatience with the mystery.
—Michael Pollan, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
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How much hope is left in the search for answers to the many remaining mysteries of the universe?
—Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2026
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A lot of people call it the mystery disease because there’s not enough information about lupus.
—Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2026
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Young returns to a mystery guest picture round and three stories his audience will not have heard.
—Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2026
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