Sentence examples for statement was cryptic from inspiring English sources

But the statement was cryptic about the causes of the violence, blaming "persons and organizations" for manipulating the situation.

A statement from the company was cryptic, saying that while the board had received Mr. Hefner's offer, there could be no certainty a sale would happen.

Here the chairman was cryptic.

The invitation was cryptic.

He was cryptic 'til the grave.

The person who issued this cryptic statement was none other than Gómez himself — Leonel Gómez Vides, a coffee farmer from El Salvador who showed up in Southern California on the doorstep of the poet Carolyn Forché in 1977, with a bundle of papers under his arm and his two young daughters in tow.

Mr. Mamet, who had a brief stint selling real estate in Chicago, dedicated "Glengarry" to the British dramatist Harold Pinter, whose plays are ferocious battles where the weapons of choice are cryptic statements.

Everywhere around me, citizens were chanting, "The people and the Army are one hand!" The previous month had been full of rumors, and the last time that the Minister of Defense, General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, had issued a public statement, a week earlier, it had been cryptic enough that it was welcomed by both the opponents and the supporters of President Mohamed Morsi.

His notes can be cryptic.

But these messages were cryptic.

The dessert menu is cryptic.