How to Use riddle in a Sentence

riddle

1 of 2 noun
  • At least one of these riddles has been solved!
    — Lincee Ray Published, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • But wait, here come the centrists to solve the riddle!
    — Cerys Jones, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2026
  • What creature is this riddle about?
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • Manić helped Packer solve a big part of the riddle.
    — ArsTechnica, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The answer to the riddle is that there is no riddle.
    — Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Is this a riddle assayed by a fairy-tale creature?
    — Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 8 May 2026
  • The two meet in the depths of space and work together to solve the riddle.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The first clue in this riddle gives us the word SPY.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • Nowhere is that riddle harder to solve than in greater San Diego.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2023
  • And these puzzles aren’t just fun for kids, there are plenty of hard riddles that will even stump adults.
    — Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Every stroke appeared to him anew, each an enigma with a fresh riddle.
    — Jing Tsu, Wired, 23 Jan. 2022
  • Darius is a riddle, wrapped in an enigma, buried under a pile of jollof.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Then, forgery was fun, like a challenging puzzle or a riddle to solve.
    — Tony Tetro, Town & Country, 22 Nov. 2022
  • What does Morrow's riddle mean?
    — Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • To many of us, this isn’t a question so much as a riddle, like a Buddhist kōan.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 27 Jan. 2024
  • There was no judgment, no riddle to be answered or trial needing to be passed.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
  • By then the man had disappeared into the landscape, like the last line of a riddle.
    — Molly Langmuir, Rolling Stone, 2 Feb. 2024
  • What the Bears can do to solve the quarterback riddle remains to be seen.
    — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 24 Feb. 2021
  • The Broncos' defense is its own riddle.
    — Mike Sando, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Everyone will take their own approach to the riddle, and there are no right answers.
    — Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Players use a card deck to create a riddle, then try to come up with the most creative response.
    — Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Here’s a riddle for a frigid wintry day in Kansas City.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 29 Jan. 2026
  • In the meantime, the riddle that is Coors Field remains.
    — Brittany Ghiroli, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Dark matter has remained one of the biggest riddles in modern physics.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2025
  • As if she’d been presented with a tidy, screw-like riddle from the Sphynx.
    — Literary Hub, 2 Apr. 2026
  • To all appearances, the riddle of identity had been posed and solved.
    — James Marcus, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • But the show, at its core, is a mystery—a piquant riddle for Mark and the viewers to solve.
    — The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
  • But a riddle is a statement or question that has multiple meanings and needs to be solved.
    — Christina Montoya Fiedler, Good Housekeeping, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The riddle of Randy drove his parents to distraction.
    — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 26 Dec. 2025
  • There is no solution, only more riddle.
    — Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025

riddle

2 of 2 verb
  • But the studio was riddled with doubt.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Trump has called the election riddled with fraud.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 28 Feb. 2026
  • It may be riddled with mistakes.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2025
  • These people were riddled with glass.
    — Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Her memoir is riddled with stories from this era, both good and bad.
    — Grace Edquist, Vogue, 30 Mar. 2024
  • His tenure has been riddled by mediocrity at best.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
  • His arms aren’t riddled with the muscle of his teammates.
    — Sam Evan Sussman, Vogue, 10 June 2026
  • It's riddled with cheffy tricks but not in alienating way.
    — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2026
  • And that may be the tone for a week still riddled with uncertainty.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2023
  • Sergey and Anne witnessed our souls and bodies riddled with fear.
    — Isabelle Chapman, CNN Money, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Even her parents are riddled with anxiety and don’t want to leave the house.
    — Charlotte Observer, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Injuries have riddled Diggs over the last few years.
    — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The season is riddled with loose threads that tease more creepy, kooky adventures to come.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Sep. 2025
  • But her early life was riddled with awful moments, too.
    — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Two of the truck's windows were shattered, and it was riddled with bullet holes.
    — Marcella Baietto, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Behind the bar there's a squad car door hanging that's riddled with bullet holes.
    — ABC News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Behind the bar there’s a squad car door hanging that’s riddled with bullet holes.
    — Steve Karnowski, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The car’s windows were shattered, the car riddled with bullet holes.
    — Savannaheadens, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Another body riddled with stab wounds.
    — Kristine Phillips, IndyStar, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The app has been riddled with glitches and setbacks for asylum seekers since it was rolled out.
    — The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2023
  • They are riddled with large, dark brown inedible seeds, and the pulp must be removed from the seeds to be used.
    — Stephanie Ganz, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The glass entrance to the kibbutz dining hall is riddled with bullet holes.
    — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2023
  • That Avs team was coming off a Cup run and riddled with injuries, though.
    — Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Their bodies were later found, beaten and riddled with bullets, in a ditch by the road.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • The path ahead for Cowboy Space is riddled with roadblocks.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2026
  • The front of the single-family home was riddled with bullet holes.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 13 July 2023
  • Give your guests the creeps by riddling your wreath with spiders and cobwebs or centering it with a skull.
    — Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Tight end Evan Engram has been riddled with injuries.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The reason for these horrific events remained vague and riddled with doubt.
    — Karl Vick, TIME, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Holes riddle nearly every leaf, and some barely have any substance left.
    — Alora Bopray, USA Today, 6 July 2026

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