On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Conundrum. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as riddle or enigma and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Conundrum meaning
- A difficult question or riddle, especially one using a play on words in the answer.
- A difficult choice or decision that must be made.
Using Conundrum
- The main meaning on this page is: A difficult question or riddle, especially one using a play on words in the answer. | A difficult choice or decision that must be made.
- Useful related words include: riddle, enigma, brain-teaser, problem.
- In the example corpus, conundrum often appears in combinations such as: the conundrum, conundrum for, conundrum of.
Context around Conundrum
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 7 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Conundrum
- In this selection, "conundrum" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, future, biggest, different, whereby, though and shortly stand out and add context to how "conundrum" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include of a conundrum and a chronological conundrum there which. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "conundrum" sits close to words such as accusers, analysing and artifact, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with conundrum
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It’s hardly a new conundrum, though. (7 words)
The great saving versus investing conundrum: A one-year. (9 words)
So, there’s a chronological conundrum there, which signposts forgery. (10 words)
However, that is not the kind of conundrum which would bother the cool and calculating Smith, who explained that he regarded this match as just another piece in a giant jigsaw which he started strategising his way through at the start of the season. (44 words)
It has been common for Democrats and Republicans to go back and forth in the Capitol and on social media over the past few years, but for members of the same party to do so represents a different conundrum for Republicans. (41 words)
The ideal solution to the conundrum of how on earth you are going to fit all of your Christmas guests around a table for lunch or dinner, this modular piece of goes from being easy to store to a party centrepiece. (41 words)
And knowing that future conundrum, should he approve the student’s topic in the first place? (16 words)
Complete household full of everything, but this sale is a conundrum! (11 words)
Example sentences (20)
All this raises a conundrum for those of us who work on resource allocation.
And knowing that future conundrum, should he approve the student’s topic in the first place?
And the conundrum for the Biden administration is playing out as the U.S. continues to reckon with the threat to democracy here posed by the Jan.
A week before, the conundrum was at the other end of the field as Walsall couldn’t score.
Complete household full of everything, but this sale is a conundrum!
Economically, Milliken explained a conundrum whereby even where there is an acknowledgement of the unviability of two primary schools in a village, current legislation constrains planning innovation to address this.
Finding ways and tools to elevate democracy at the UN is a conundrum that is hard to untangle.
He added: "The mental state of players is the biggest conundrum you can have as a coach, so I will speak to the players about what was going through their heads.
Hebert is good, very good but he hasn’t accomplished what Burrows and Hurts has which puts him in a conundrum.
However, that is not the kind of conundrum which would bother the cool and calculating Smith, who explained that he regarded this match as just another piece in a giant jigsaw which he started strategising his way through at the start of the season.
It has been common for Democrats and Republicans to go back and forth in the Capitol and on social media over the past few years, but for members of the same party to do so represents a different conundrum for Republicans.
It’s hardly a new conundrum, though.
I will leave this logical conundrum for you to grapple with, as many still need help understanding this line of reasoning.
Mr Tinubu faced a similar legal conundrum shortly after he was elected governor of Lagos in 1999.
Our conundrum is whether we try to deny them the ball, and yet they work really really hard to win it back.
So, there’s a chronological conundrum there, which signposts forgery.
Sterling's time at Chelsea so far has proven something of a conundrum.
The Eagles are short-handed at cornerback right now and Slay missing time would put them in even more of a conundrum.
The great saving versus investing conundrum: A one-year.
The ideal solution to the conundrum of how on earth you are going to fit all of your Christmas guests around a table for lunch or dinner, this modular piece of goes from being easy to store to a party centrepiece.
Common combinations with conundrum
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the conundrum 25×
- conundrum for 18×
- conundrum of 18×
- this conundrum 16×
- of conundrum 11×
- conundrum is 9×
- conundrum that 7×
- conundrum in 7×
- is conundrum 5×
- biggest conundrum 4×