mystery
Example Sentences
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Together they sketched out the story’s framework: a murder mystery set in a small town replete with shameful secrets and sinister magic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
The Ava Gardner of 1987, in her knitted shawl and high-bridge spectacles, seems to carry no sense of mystery.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
To investigate this mystery, Weber's team analyzed a global dataset and used computer models.
From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2026
But where the blazing redhead star turned recluse’s mystery came from something thrown into the water, the copper-tressed, genre-blurring songwriter’s own mysteries are contained within.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
The question is whether I can live with this being an unsolved mystery.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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