Explore Mystery through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like enigma or secret. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Mystery in a sentence
Mystery meaning
- Something secret or unexplainable; an unknown.
- Someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature.
- An account, story, book, film, or play, often with the theme of crime or murder, with a surprise ending that explains all the strange events that have occurred.
Synonyms of Mystery
Using Mystery
- The main meaning on this page is: Something secret or unexplainable; an unknown. | Someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature. | An account, story, book, film, or play, often with the theme of crime or murder, with a surprise ending that explains all the strange events that have occurred.
- Useful related words include: enigma, secret, closed book, perplexity.
- In the example corpus, mystery often appears in combinations such as: the mystery, mystery of, of mystery.
Context around Mystery
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 12 start, 7 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 2 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Mystery
- In this selection, "mystery" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, murder, dials, woods, series, deal and man stand out and add context to how "mystery" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 40 year mystery was solved, a good mystery story, murder mystery and mystery man. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "mystery" sits close to words such as infected, diet and duo, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with mystery
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The dinner is called Café Murder: Mystery Dinner Theatre where participants question suspects and try to solve the mystery. (19 words)
However, the mystery as to how Luke obtained his green lightsaber has been left a mystery for decades - until now. (20 words)
Summer Mystery Deal costs £9.99 or you could opt for the Premium Mystery Deal which costs £19.99, instead. (20 words)
There’s the mystery of Kihrin’s parentage, the mystery of Talon’s origins, the mystery of how the end of Talon’s story will meet up with the beginning of Kihrin’s — and the mystery of almost every character who comes onstage. (43 words)
Based off what might be the most famous murder mystery ever, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Hound of Baskerville,” Big Dawg is staging Ken Ludwing’s “Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery,” just in time for All Hallow’s Eve. (40 words)
Indeed, much of the episode was about not just keeping the mystery of Brainiac a secret, but about keeping every possible mystery about anything pertaining to the House of El and Adam Strange’s prophecy a secret. (37 words)
There’s nothing quite like a murder mystery within a murder mystery to get you hooked from start to finish! (20 words)
The mystery gang & Mystery Machine will be there plus Spiders in the Maze, Catwalks, Witch & Wizard Spell School & much more! (20 words)
Example sentences (20)
There’s the mystery of Kihrin’s parentage, the mystery of Talon’s origins, the mystery of how the end of Talon’s story will meet up with the beginning of Kihrin’s — and the mystery of almost every character who comes onstage.
Get your mystery-solving hat on with a unique game of uncovering clues as the globally renowned Murder Mystery experience arrives at Al Seef Heritage Hotel Dubai and will run until 12th March.
However, the mystery as to how Luke obtained his green lightsaber has been left a mystery for decades - until now.
Like his most recent and self-financed entries, is a well-crafted and more intimate thriller that mainly focuses on the human aspect of the mystery rather than the mystery itself.
Seven Dials Mystery is based on the Christie novel of the same name and again follows a mystery after a murder, although this novel seemed to be a different style than most of her earlier work.
This week’s episode ofis brimming with magic and mystery: from the magic of an English seaside cinema, a cabin-in-the-woods mystery thriller, to Channing Tatum’s special brand of “saucery”.
Fans of mystery-maestro Tara Lush’s Florida tales will known her Coffee Lover’s Mystery series, set in the cute (if surprisingly murder-y) town of Devils Beach.
Maybe this mystery can't be solved, but what's not a mystery is how texturally unappealing biting into these thin, bendy cookies was.
Summer Mystery Deal costs £9.99 or you could opt for the Premium Mystery Deal which costs £19.99, instead.
There’s nothing quite like a murder mystery within a murder mystery to get you hooked from start to finish!
Warner checked in and said he would pick up his mystery man in his truck, then the mystery man would whoop some ass.
But the 40-year mystery was solved thanks to a visitor whose lucky guess put the decades-old mystery to rest.
Fortunately, Maine has a small number of debut mystery writers who have the imagination, organization of thought and writing skills to craft a good mystery story.
It is unclear and a mystery, surprised the Iranians have not accused of exploding their own ship since it is a mystery.
The dinner is called Café Murder: Mystery Dinner Theatre where participants question suspects and try to solve the mystery.
Based off what might be the most famous murder mystery ever, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Hound of Baskerville,” Big Dawg is staging Ken Ludwing’s “Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery,” just in time for All Hallow’s Eve.
Indeed, much of the episode was about not just keeping the mystery of Brainiac a secret, but about keeping every possible mystery about anything pertaining to the House of El and Adam Strange’s prophecy a secret.
The mystery gang & Mystery Machine will be there plus Spiders in the Maze, Catwalks, Witch & Wizard Spell School & much more!
There are enough mystery series and original graph novels in comics for lit sites to run features on the top 10, or 25, or 50 mystery comics.
Writing a weekly column has probably led me to serious reflection on the mystery of persons, including the mystery of myself.
Phrases with mystery
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with mystery
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the mystery 54×
- mystery of 20×
- of mystery 16×
- murder mystery 15×
- mystery and 10×
- this mystery 7×
- and mystery 6×
- mystery to 6×
- mystery man 6×
- mystery that 6×