Sentence examples for riddles it from inspiring English sources

Put out by Henry Holt in 1985, it offered $10,000 to any reader who could solve its riddles; it took three years for anyone to collect the prize money.

At that point the film pretends to solve the riddles it has posed.

Given that the translation preserves the meaning of the philosophical riddle, it will also preserve its difficulty.

I hope it answers the riddle it has posed.

Automakers are pushing for the weakest standard and want the president to riddle it with loopholes.

An organization runs a competition by proposing a riddle it needs answered and offering years of data.

This is one of the profound paradoxes of the theory of probability, and the joke in fact implies a riddle; it pinpoints an absurdity that tends to be taken for granted.

She sang it with great enthusiasm; she's not quite relaxed enough a singer to make it swing, but she riddled it with detail, buzzing words with vibrato and making notes snap suddenly into true pitch.

Twenty minutes into the ballet, a series of sharp string jabs cued the ballad, which accompanied a final, sombre pas de deux: Oh, mother, oh, mother, come riddle it down Come riddle two hearts as one Say may I marry Fair Ellender?

In one memorable sequence, for instance, the fliers attack a zeppelin in midair, riddling it with bullets and triggering explosions that send German soldiers fleeing along the top and interior of the airship, while biplanes buzz on all sides.

He barely had time to answer, he said, before the men — who recognized him as a Sunni from his northern accent — opened fire on the car, riddling it with bullets and killing Mr. Obaid's young nephew, Abdo.