How to Use mystery in a Sentence

mystery

noun
  • This is no longer just a mystery.
    — U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
  • And that's a bit of the mystery.
    — Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Gut health can feel like a bit of a mystery.
    — Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Martha Stewart, 6 June 2026
  • Once on land, the mystery was solved.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2025
  • There isn’t much mystery to his role.
    — Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2026
  • There's no mystery about this one.
    — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas Morning News, 1 Apr. 2026
  • This isn’t a mystery that needs to be solved.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Why this is the case isn’t much of a mystery.
    — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Daniel and his crew take on a mystery per episode.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Here's what to know about the mystery.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • That's still very much a mystery.
    — Lauren Clark, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • There’s no charm, mystery, or wit to it.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Her killing had been a mystery for over a decade.
    — Dan Raby, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • And there’s more mystery afoot.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Once again, the mystery seemed solved.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2026
  • The mystery sound rose and fell over the course of one minute.
    — Andrew Coletti, Popular Science, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Okay, let’s see what else is in the mystery box this week.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Mar. 2026
  • But Blaze was kind of a mystery to me.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 18 June 2026
  • This is a mystery that isn’t meant to be solved in the way of true crime.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Feb. 2026
  • How that happened is a bit of a mystery.
    — Josh Kendall, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • But who did it and why remains a big mystery.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Or maybe the mystery will always be the point.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 29 May 2026
  • Outlander is in no rush to solve this mystery.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2026
  • So that will remain a mystery for now.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 27 June 2026
  • But where this awareness comes from is a mystery.
    — Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2026
  • There's also a touch of mystery to the ghost light.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2026
  • That’s one of the big mysteries of life.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The darkness not of mystery but of fear.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
  • But the process is still shrouded in mystery.
    — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 15 Apr. 2026
  • There’s a sense of quiet mystery in tarot.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026

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