Sentence examples for cipher for from inspiring English sources

The main character could almost be a cipher for him.

No doubt she functions here as a cipher for the novelist's own earthy, fantastical imagination.

Mr. Prokhorov's relationship with the Kremlin has been a cipher for years.

May have been a cipher for their emotions... Who knows really, love?

What if he stopped pretending to be a cipher for the rest of us?

The silent Justice is said to be an intellectual nonentity, a cipher for his similarly conservative colleague, Antonin Scalia.

The Lakes of Ransome lore remain a landscape where nature is a cipher for innocence, toil and decency.

The number of pheasants the landowners release could be seen as a cipher for the state of society.

And Elizabeth is under-used as an AI but over-employed as a cipher for exposition and ammo collection.

A repeated C -- or Do, in Italian -- was a cipher for Fuchs-Robettin's daughter, Dorothea, known as Dodo.

And finally, not giving her a name is just one more way to make the character a cipher for readers.