mysterious
Example Sentences
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These are two Europeans: Miriam, a deeply feeling, moody, beautiful Jewish-British painter with a mysterious past; and Donatello, an Italian Bacchus who closely resembles the ancient Greek sculptor Praxiteles’ “Faun.”
Stunned, Mother asked the night air if the mysterious sounds were made by a human.
From Literature
The mysterious love interest turns out not, in fact, to be his heart's desire from society, but a maid called Sophie Baek.
From BBC
The first, which he began making in the early 1960s, were mysterious, sinisterly bejeweled boxes, little containers of compressed surrealism festooned with hundreds of shiny straight pins.
When he pushed his snout through a gap, he was able to glimpse who was talking in that mysterious language.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
