How to Use enigma in a Sentence

enigma

noun
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  • To his friends, he was always something of an enigma.
  • The brain is, at least to me, an enigma wrapped in a mystery.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Oct. 2019
  • Even with the tests, the killings may remain an enigma.
    — oregonlive.com, 22 Aug. 2019
  • What made the role so tricky is that Gary Hart was an enigma.
    — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 21 Nov. 2018
  • An enigma for the first half of the year and a killer from Wimbledon on.
    — SI.com, 23 Aug. 2017
  • The mystery of Prince’s death mirrors the enigma of his life.
    — John Eligon, Serge F. Kovaleski and Joe Coscarelli, New York Times, 4 May 2016
  • The hats are as much of an enigma as the statues themselves.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 5 June 2018
  • This year’s team, like its new head coach, is a bit of an enigma.
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Mr. Girard has helped despatch them, but the enigma lives on.
    — Felipe Fernández-Armesto, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2016
  • Here are a few of the most intriguing enigmas and cold cases of the West.
    — Nicole Clausing, Sunset Magazine, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Maybe that's why, since humans have been on Earth, the sea has been an enigma to us.
    — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2022
  • John Ibrahim is – amongst so many things – an enigma wrapped in a mystery.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 16 Mar. 2022
  • The story behind the church remains an enigma, and part of its charm.
    — Celestine Bohlen, New York Times, 15 July 2019
  • Despite the enigma of the man’s midsection, the date is a success.
    — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Those are still an enigma but thought to be a hybrid of the waking and sleeping states.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 9 May 2023
  • It’s hard to find a bigger enigma in the Bay Area than the football team at St. Francis.
    — Vytas Mazeika, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Loeb thought the radio flash was a compelling enigma—but not much more than that.
    — Katia Moskvitch, WIRED, 21 July 2019
  • Before the Apollo program, the origin of the moon was an enigma.
    — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 July 2019
  • The target of Ballmer’s jibe, Amazon.com, was indeed an enigma.
    — Washington Post, 7 May 2021
  • In his first 15 years on the high court, Stevens was often described as an enigma and quirky.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2019
  • Basco remains for many an enigma and a symbol of the city's pain.
    — Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2019
  • Roberts admits that his subject was a bit of an enigma.
    — Richard Horan, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Feb. 2023
  • One of the strangest and least-studied enigmas, though, is how tattoos survive at all.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The only British politician known around the world remains an enigma.
    — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 13 Dec. 2019
  • A year ago Clayton Wilcox came to Charlotte as an enigma.
    — Ann Doss Helms, charlotteobserver, 12 July 2018
  • At the heart of this enigma is the fact that purpose, much like a unicorn, is revered and sought after but rarely seen in its true form.
    — Ira Wolfe, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Mercury is a super dense, hot and fiery yet icy enigma.
    — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 May 2018
  • Outside the white lines, Ohtani, 29, remains the game’s greatest enigma.
    — Scott Miller, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • More than 100 years later the enigma and marvel of the human brain endures.
    — Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 1 June 2023
  • The forward is an enigma that Liverpool fans are still getting to know and love.
    — Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024

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