cipher

How to use cipher in a sentence

So, the curious ciphers and clues in these paintings situate their subjects within a complex web of cultural and political change.

Most frustrating of all is the show’s saintly cipher of a hero.

Women who knew the ciphers were not to fall into enemy hands.

One night in February 1940, after a fruitless day attacking the cipher, Herivel fell asleep in an armchair in front of his fireplace.

The 1877 commission formed to decide the election had subpoenaed copies of over 30,000 telegrams, many of them written in cipher.

The figure value of “sew,” therefore equals or is represented by a cipher .

ASSIMILATIVE MEMORYMARCUS DWIGHT LARROWE (AKA PROF. A. LOISETTE)

A will may be found, or my uncle's marriage proved; in either case, I sink back into the cipher I was before.

THE CROMPTONSMARY J. HOLMES

In those old days when I was thrown much with this man, he had shown me a curious cipher and taught me how to use it.

THE MAYOR'S WIFEANNA KATHERINE GREEN

So the duke said it was kind of hard to have to lay roped all day, and he'd cipher out some way to get around it.

He l'arned to read, en when Maizie came, he l'arned to write en cipher after he was a grown man.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985