Sentence examples for riddle me from inspiring English sources
Servers toss around collegiate slang ("Riddle me this, Batman," a diner was asked recently.
And riddle me this: do you think she'll take the same coy and enigmatic stance when the Oscars roll around?
"Riddle me this," he famously quizzed his victims before letting loose a giggle that sounded like a satanic impression of Groucho Marx.
To them I say, riddle me this?
Dear readers, riddle me this: What's the only thing cooler than a Scottish castle?
"Jerry riddled me, knocking me flat on my back, and the last I heard was 'Longy's had it, they got him.' " But his fellow soldiers saw him move and rescued him.
Idamante: Riddle-me rum / Riddle-me-ree / Who the sodding hell / Are thee?
Miles: Riddle-me rum, riddle-me ree / I'm a strange dichotomy.
Drawing from authors such as JRR Tolkien, Jack Vance and TH White, the creators knew that fancy special effects weren't enough – they needed to inject serious amounts of personality and humanity if they had any hope of getting their young audience to go along with all that dungeoneering, riddle-me-this, bucket-on-the-head nonsense.
There are plenty of mildly astonishing facts – I didn't know that Paul Griffin, who added inscrutable but essential piano parts to Dionne Warwick's "Walk On By" and Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone", was the man who stopped Don McLean's "American Pie" from collapsing under the weight of its riddle-me-this conceits with his bar‑room piano accompaniment.
