How To Use Mystery In A Sentence

A few minutes with the heron book cleared up the mystery; they were tricolored herons, the first I had ever seen.10 By the end of the month American goldfinches were shooting around like tossed gold pieces despite another cold spell. Bird Cloud
They're looking to solve the mystery, and there are a lot of questions that are unanswered right now.
Moreover, I realized -- experienced, even -- at long last, that "the Body of Christ" is a good deal more than a figure of speech; it is an appalling truth and mystery, uniting us beyond our knowing with one another, and uniting us with an ever greater mystery, the perichoresis ( "circling dance") of the Holy Trinity Who is our One God. Scott Cairns: Recovering the Body of Christ
T.e Saints D received a couple of cheap calls againt Farve, but the refs made it up with the "mystery" defensive pass interference call in O/T. Shutdown Corner Yahoo! Sports - Top News
Another mystery surrounds the only example of body armour to be found among the primates.

The mystery of how to sell decent books consistently has eluded publishers and booksellers. Times, Sunday Times
anisotropy," has been seen from the Northern Hemisphere by previous experiments, she says, but its source is still a mystery. Space News From SpaceDaily.Com
Lawrence Pietroni has created two uniquely alluring charactersRuby and Isaand spins a story that feels mythical or folkloric, that is driven by a mystery, throbs with tension, and ends in conflagration. Ruby's Spoon: Summary and book reviews of Ruby's Spoon by Anna Lawrence Pietroni.
In the last cliffhanger, downstairs lover Tony Head was caught sharing his Gold Blend nightcap with a mystery lady.
It's science fiction all right, but it's also a character study and a murder mystery.
However, it is hardly an unsolvable mystery: remember that there were plants with sap, leaves, seeds, spores and pollen in the Paleozoic, long before flowering plants appeared.
No fighting style remains a mystery to Hopkins inside the ring and he can box with you or brawl - it does not matter.
She was a total mystery to him in spite of their long and successful association.
What drove him remains a mystery in a book that is more hagiography than biography. Times, Sunday Times
They are wonderful reminders of the enduring mystery and magic that is childhood itself.
Might it not be some terrible avenger, out of the mystery beyond life, placed to beset him and finish him finally on this road that he was convinced was surely the death-road? CHAPTER XXXVI
A further clarification of the mystery man's identity still elicited a blank response.
But the smallness of the exception made the mystery.
And that in itself becomes the great terrible mystery of the film - the monstrous enigma that propels the townspeople towards some inexplicable, and therefore, inextricable, oblivion.
The mystery simply enveloped him. Christianity Today
A mystery remains, however, over the way features resembling flood plains, river beds and gorges were created on Mars.
Gosh, it's over a year since I read The Moving Toyshop; here Gervase Fen is embroiled in a mystery of murder and espionage in a West Country cathedral town in about 1940. January Books 27) Holy Disorders, by Edmund Crispin
One of the more interesting paths Donoghue sets out to traverse is what she terms the borderline territory of "murkily criminal" lesbian sex as found in mystery and detective fiction. Edmonton Sun
It's better approached as a comedy than a murder mystery.
Created by novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Holmes was an investigative genius who could routinely assess seemingly random clues and solve the mystery.
To celebrate, Facebook is giving its 150 million-plus users a mystery virtual gift, such as bongo drums and beer. Macworld
Watching it, it's got all the fun of a murder mystery musical, but the undercurrent of aggression never lets it slip into the realm of a wispy bagatelle.
Given what most people today think they know about Fascism, this bare recital of facts is a mystery story.
I suppose the major reason I’m feeling so jaded is that the mystery has gone out of wine for me. Rants
He had partially unveiled the face of Nature, but her immortal lineaments were still a wonder and a mystery. Chapter 2
There was a feel of mystery about the place.
In any event, there has always been a mystery about what was changed in the actual program in 2004 to render it even colorably legal in the opinion of DOJ during this time period. Balkinization
Ambassadors used to have a scent of mystery, secrecy and even of romance about them.
The real mystery is why so few have claimed non-dom status. Times, Sunday Times
Yes, every tree as if is a mystery story the phantom, every flower mushroom seems to hide an ancient riddle.
Thus Philo Judaeus may equate the hy - ponoia of a text with its latent theme, its mystery, its secret, its unexpressed, unseen, nonliteral, or simply intelligible meaning. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Finally, a Cretan youth was allowed only one garment, the Attic ephebe wore a black garment, and in certain mystery cults initiates were required to wear white clothing.
It's a classic noir detective tale but as well as a crime to be solved there's a philosophical mystery in the making.
One mystery turned out to have a prosaic explanation. Times, Sunday Times
It held more mystery than even the darkest jungle.
It has all the ingredients of a good mystery story.
It all added up to a marital mystery that had even the nosiest internet scandal merchants flummoxed. Times, Sunday Times
It was always a mystery why cash flow was so poor, given that he openly sold editorial as well as advertising space.
The affair rests a mystery.
The pair uncover a mystery involving animals going savage. The Sun
The huge resistance to this idea in the educational establishment is a constant mystery to me. Times, Sunday Times
Ick. Why MSNBC keeps him on is a mystery to me (and is lumped into the same mystery of why Maureen Dowd and David broder, for instance, have such an unhealthy fascination with the sexual activities of politicisn -- seriously, they're just strange, aren't they?) Chris Matthews, On Whether MSNBC Supports Obama: "Well, It's Not Official"
Silence has long been a tenet of mystery religions such as Wicca, as well as other fraternal organizations such as the Masons, or the Golden Dawn.
After pointing this out to the company concerned they kindly sent another batch which also arrived unlabelled so we ended up with ten mystery clematis to fit into our very small garden.
The Bible tells us there is such a thing as the mystery of iniquity, that is to say, the mystery of the spiritual power used invertedly, used from the diabolical standpoint; and when the Bible speaks of the mystery of iniquity, it means what it says. The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science
The setup is familiar, but Arvin calculates everything - the mystery, the office politics, the anti-death-penalty demonstrations, the race riots, the fiendishly escalating threats - so neatly that the whole package is an offer you can't refuse. Blood of Angels by Reed Arvin: Book summary
But the origin of why some people are left-handed is still a mystery. The Sun
All the exquisite, surrounding obscurity was animated by that music, which continued in the distance, in the mystery of the leaves and of the stones, in the depths of all the small, black holes of rocks or walls; it seemed like chivies in miniature, or rather, a sort of frail concert somewhat mocking -- oh! not very mocking, and without any maliciousness -- led timidly by inoffensive gnomes. Ramuntcho
The explanation is farcical and bizarre, yet there is mystery, almost coquetry, in the way Martel underplays it.
Her blue eyes had a certain mystery.
It was a mystery to the Allied armies why their own industries failed to build a direct copy of the 88 mm, the Schmeisser, or the potato-masher. Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy
The meeting was cloaked in mystery.
Of course, the mystery for people looking for Kantian normative bindingness is how autonomous motivation would look any different. The Starry Heavens Above and the Moral Law Within (the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex)
The exact death toll remained shrouded in mystery. The Sun
Eyes that sparkled with all the mystery and magic of the dream lit up a face of breathtaking beauty.
They are an expression of the holiness of the mystery that is being celebrated; of the actio Dei in which we participate. Archive 2009-02-01
Yesterday is history .Tomorrow is a mystery .But today is a gift.
There was a breakfast room set aside for the train party where a piece of the mystery would unravel each morning.
Why he did not pay the full amount must remain a mystery.
This is an ambitious 18-track programme piece redolent of the history, mystery, and eloquent loneliness in the Border hills of the composer's childhood.
He often tells stories full of mystery.
(I suspect this paper was really meant to validate that stylometric method rather than to solve the "mystery.") Stylometry for Fun and Profit
The most basic statement of the tradition is that there is a double mystery, the dark mystery of evil and the bright mystery of goodness.
Mystery still surrounds the exact circumstances of Stalin's death.
Annie knew that there was some mystery surrounding her birth.
One of the pinups named Gretchen, for example, clearly doesn't have the desired effect; her ‘Dutch cap seemed unromantic and precluded the element of mystery.’
He had found the clue to unlock the whole mystery.
The mystery guest turned out to be none other than Cher herself.
The play is a murder mystery.
There will be a disco from 9 pm to midnight and a mystery guest will do the honours in presenting the medals.
He could easily join the ranks of those who find first-class cricket a bit of a mystery while Test cricket becomes a natural environment. Times, Sunday Times
The origin of these exotic features remains a mystery but may be due to something simple, such as the uneven upwelling of ice sheets.
Quite what a flying jellyfish looks like as it impacts the faceplate of your snorkel mask is still a mystery to me, but they seemed to be enjoying it.
To capture the mystery, caprice and force of romantic love, the ancients conjured Cupid, a mischievous immortal in whose thrall we are wholly powerless.
Their affair is going nowhere until he asks her to restore a family heirloom that may contain the key to a centuries-old murder mystery.
My thoughts and ramblings were put on hold as the toothsome scent of bacon and omelets (the mystery goo in the basin) filtered into my room, permeating throughout the air and reaching my nostrils.
His personal life is a mystery to his colleagues.
He is set to front a new rescue package, with a mystery backer ready to invest a substantial sum.
An air of mystery surrounds plans being drawn up for a new road that will cut out the bad bends at the notorious Cononley Lane Ends.
If you ask people why they give, the readiest answers offer clues to the mystery. Deepak Chopra: The Joy of Giving
The flying saucer is yet an unsolved mystery.
‘Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go,’ said Truman Capote and suddenly we knew it was time to leave the feminine wiles of this ancient city with its masks and mystery.
The young woman had acquired (right after receiving her fourth -- mandatory -- anthrax shot) a shockingly precipitous mystery disease, eventually diagnosed as a bizarrely speeded-up form of ametropic lateral sclerosis -- she lost in three months the amount of muscle function a middle aged ALS sufferer would lose in four years. Sheila Weller: In This Case, A Soldier Was Treated Beautifully at Walter Reed
Far from emphasizing the distinctiveness of introspection, the Inner Sense model instead seeks to minimize the anomalousness and associated mystery of self-knowledge by construing introspection as fundamentally similar to perception. Self-Knowledge
The success of the novel thus depends on the balance of the supernatural/steampunk/mystery combination and how well they interrelate. REVIEW: The Osiris Ritual by George Mann
You're full of mystery tonight; what's going on?
I have a shrewd idea who the mystery caller was.
A sale of the business, which sells high-quality tableware including glasses, decanters and jugs, was agreed on Monday and involves the firm's management, some workers and a mystery customer of the firm.
Trusting in the mystery that will lead me to whatever books will mesh with my current (non-academic) learning needs.
That's not to say he sings in a heavily accented style, far from it; indeed many of the characteristics of the Faroese language carry well into Teitur's anglophonic melodies but the shroud of mystery is one which a lot of artists benefit greatly from. Drowned In Sound // Feed
The mystery customer won £2,838 at the Tote bookmakers in Well Croft, Shipley, after putting a £2 bet on the shop's Scoop6 accumulator bet last Saturday.
Nobody clued us to this mystery.
The revelation in the mystery's denouement is so shocking and smart that the entire tale is turned upside down. The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard: Book summary
When we had finished our sweetmeats or fruit she would accompany us to the stoep, bidding us thank our mother for her gift and sending quaint, old-fashioned messages to her and the Father. Then she would turn and enter the house, closing the door behind, so that it became once more a place of mystery.
The building retains an aura of mystery .
Or, perchance, mystery and importance have been found, during his long and varied experience with the unsophisticated tourist, excellent things to increase the volume of importance attached to the exhibited articles, and the volume of "pice" in his exchequer. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
Obviously the Mystery Plays were originally intended to be performed on waggons, and it is good to keep this tradition alive.
Though the film was shot in full color, sets and costumes alike draw heavily on muted tones, creating an atmosphere of age and mystery.
It is not a thriller or a mystery or an action film or a crime film, nor any kind of ordinary drama or melodrama.
Châteaubriand or à la Béarnaise are no longer a mystery, or that one who can make clear meat jelly and roast a chicken has learned all but the arrangement of a _chaudfroid_ in aspic -- will make apparently complicated dishes simple. Choice Cookery
She often would face sideways or towards the rest of the band, which only added to the mystery of her performance.
It's a strange compound of documentary, mystery and folktale, an unfamiliar voice from the centre of a world of secrets. Times, Sunday Times
The most wonderful thing is that some direct descendants of the original crew of the Mystery came to meet us. Times, Sunday Times
Q: We have to be careful here, because the identity of the gypsy morph is a key mystery in the novel, but can you describe generally what this creature is and what it represents? An interview with Terry Brooks about his new series that begins with Armageddon's Children
How montbretia, a native of the South Africa veld, became established – miles from the nearest garden – is a mystery, but its orange blooms, as incandescent as coal in a furnace, added a fiery hue to a hot afternoon. Country diary: Durham coast
One mystery turned out to have a prosaic explanation. Times, Sunday Times
As his voice resonated, mingling with the call of a distant koel, the mystery of the majestic edifice stood out.
There was a mystery about the Animal, he said, but he would not elucidate. THE SCAR
The 'subsong' of blackbirds remains an ornithological mystery. Times, Sunday Times
The advisory committee report did little to resolve the mystery surrounding Gulf War illness.
The hydrographical work in the Weddell Sea has done much to clear up the mystery of this, the least known of all the seas. South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917
For most people, the appeal of pro wrestling is a mystery or is written off as something for kids, rural folks not smart enough to realize wrestling is fake, and guys dealing with the fact that they enjoy watching oiled up musclemen in tights grabbing each other. Jonathan Kim: Why I Still Love Pro Wrestling and Will Miss "Macho Man" Randy Savage
Trupin is thought to be in the Caribbean, although his exact whereabouts are/is a mystery.
Almost immediately on their arrival Nort and Dick, who were then rightly classed as "tenderfeet," became involved in a strange mystery. The Boy Ranchers in Camp or The Water Fight at Diamond X
The word tinkled in her head with a supernatural echo, frozen in mystery, causing her to stir and rustle the funny papers so that she failed to hear the conclusion of her uncle's sentence: Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
There goes a woman," resumed Roger Chillingworth, after a pause, "who, be her demerits what they may, hath none of that mystery of hidden sinfulness which you deem so grievous to be borne.
And then when she solves the mystery, they cut back to her revealing it to the interested parties, a father and son.
It is precisely in this "Fatima-event" - now in the course of an international Mariological symposium-that we wish to discern and describe the presence of various aspects of the mystery of the Redemption and Coredemption. Latest Articles
French philosopher Joseph de Maistre (an antirevolution contemporary of Edmund Burke) complained that the Enlightenment types had stripped government of the mystery needed to awe the governed. A Blog Too Far: How the Maestro Made Them Mad
She's a lady of mystery.
Downhillers can ride chairlifts to the top of Moose and Mystery mountains, then bomb down 35 miles of rocky singletrack.
The writer took some of the mystery out of the creative process for the broker. Going For It!: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur
Her latest book's a murder mystery.
The police are close to solving the mystery of the missing murder weapon.
It remains, indeed, a sublime mystery that Bach's exalted creative ideals appear to have been so little constrained by the limited means at his disposal.
He is still consumed by the mystery of his disappearing swivelly orthopaedic chair.
From the beginning, the Protestant Reformers looked with disfavor on the contemplative life and on the quality of mystery that they designated ‘otherworldly.’
Nobody clued us to this mystery.
Somehow, writing extremely plot-driven fiction seems to have pushed me over into the borderlands of genre -- in most bookstores my book's shelved with literary fiction, but at least one genre bookstore carries it (Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego) and it was reviewed in Mystery Scene. Archive 2010-05-01
The young man did not analyze the process of his captivation and enrapturement, for love to him was a mystery and could not be analyzed.
Oriental mystery cults attempted to answer the need for a salvationist faith with its mysticisms and forms of sacrament; philosophy outside the Church was running to religiosity. CHRISTIANITY IN HISTORY
The Girl was greatly amaz'd hereat, it being to her an unconceivable Mystery. The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen
There is always an element of mystery about why one form of a sport becomes predominant. Times, Sunday Times
Living the mystery of kenosis is living for eternal life - a life we cannot fully imagine, the life that God alone gives through the kenosis of Christ and of the Church.
I recently ran across mention of a "mystery fish" from the Micronesian island of Yap, in Kenneth Brower's 1983 book, A Song for Satawal. A Strange Fish from Yap
De Waal charts the secrecy and alchemy surrounding the race for porcelain: the great riches and low cunning that enveloped the mystery. Times, Sunday Times
There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery
Isabel was sure moreover that her mild forehead and silver cross referred to some weird Anglican mystery — some delightful reinstitution perhaps of the quaint office of the canoness. The Portrait of a Lady
No other sports come close to matching the martial arts for a sense of mystique and mystery.
Picture editors suspect that the mystery photographer is the figure wearing a hat who appears in a reflection in a glass door in one pictures. Times, Sunday Times
The play, initially titled PenthouseLegend, was a courtroom drama and murder mystery, in which members of theaudience were selected to act as jurors and decide the play's outcome.
As mystery, it becomes a unique cultural heritage unavailable to foreigners.
Jones is a dark-eyed, curly-haired 30-year-old man of mystery with the prettier, higher register. Michael Bialas: Hot Duo Steel Magnolia Have A Three-Way... Conversation
I would go to any extent in my art to fathom the mystery of humankind's existence.
Rotherby, who had always considered Hillsden his social inferior, offered the uncharitable explanation that there was no real mystery. THE ENDLESS GAME
By accepting the mission, Charles is pitched into a world of kidnap, mystery and murder.
The actual cause is a mystery, but new brain-scanning techniques suggest that migraines happen because brain cells misfire then shut down, causing the arteries on that side of the brain to contract rapidly and cause pain.
The F sharp Nocturne comes to life in a remarkable manner whilst the C sharp minor Etude also creates a palpable sense of mystery.
We should transform the traditional medical thinking model to research the mystery of prion.
There was always a faint aura of mystery about him.
It's a minimalist sci-fi mystery about a Silver Lake couple who infiltrate a cult led by a charismatic woman Ms. Marling whose ambiguous identity unsettles the pair. Visions of the Horizon for City Moviegoers
His co-author James also had a nose for the mystery.
The mystery man was eventually traced by police and in August he was eliminated from their inquiries.
Enjoying a ratings boost this spring thanks to its Dancing With the Stars lead-in, this enjoyable light mystery swaps coasts as Detective Beckett goes rogue, defying orders as she heads from New York to L.A. where the Heat Wave movie based on Castle's books is in production to find the killer of her former partner. Matt's Picks: May 2-5
The technique of the mystery is thus explained, but the mystery remains.
The fashion industry also appears to be taking lessons from its notoriously secretive counterpart and is pulling a cloak of mystery tightly around its financial affairs. Times, Sunday Times
The riveting tale of suspense and mystery revolving around an inheritance and the pottery industry.
And sharks that range across the open ocean, known as oceanic or pelagic sharks, have been an even bigger mystery.
Still, a pricing system shrouded in mystery is also ripe for abuse. Medical pricing a mystery even to the experts
In this case the trailers are for Mystery, Alaska, Outside Providence, and Happy, Texas and are skipped using the chapter search button on most remotes.
She writes on topics ranging from travel to fitness, and also recently completed a mystery novel.
When Walter was courting India, he spoke to her one night of Ruskin (she was impressed), but by middle age he reads only mystery novels, ‘as soporifics.’
Why these shops don't thrive in the city even moreso is a mystery to me. 18th and 19th Century Country Women
This week the mystery was solved when a sharp-edged stone the size of a fingernail plopped out of his lughole. The Sun
Yesterday is history .Tomorrow is a mystery .But today is a gift.
The huge resistance to this idea in the educational establishment is a constant mystery to me. Times, Sunday Times
The pseudonyms gave the sisters an aura of mystery and secrecy, so much so that some readers believed that all three were one person or that they were males.
He knew then that the mystery of Titron was only partly explained by the secret biological warfare establishment.
The cattle move about the field, the drift boulders slowly creep down the slopes; there is no doubt that the final source of the force is in both cases the same; what we call gravity, a name for a mystery, is the form it takes in the case of the rocks, and what we call vitality, another name for a mystery, is the form it takes in the case of the cattle; without the solar and stellar energy, could there be any motion of either rock or beast? The Breath of Life
When two halves of an old photograph are put together again, a family mystery is solved in a profitable way. The Sun
Levy also says that along with scheduling, figuring out the mystery that the grown up Hardy boys need to solve is also a key element to figure out before moving forward. Shawn Levy Gives Update on HARDY MEN – Collider.com
They approach the primeval mystery of human attraction with a systematic and almost Promethean hand.
The main arc is a murder mystery around an original Melrose character, Laura Leighton's Sydney Andrews. Beyond the top 10: The other premieres
Their suspect was a mystery man: a quiet, happily married man with no enemies.
Mystery, danger, and black magic combine in this gothic tale set in the early nineteenth century.
There is no mystery about what cholesterol actually is: its chemical formula is C27H450H.
She didn't have time to fathom the mystery of books, though.
How we then found room for the lavish selection of cheeses, pear chutney and home-made warm oatcakes is still a mystery.
The ace card of a mystery spinner is that batsmen are not used to him. Times, Sunday Times
Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way.Yesterday is history,Tomorrow is a Mystery and Today is a giftthat's why we call it The Present.
Factual and forensic evidence makes a suicide verdict the most compelling answer to the mystery of his death.
The serious implication is that corporate forces paid the "Mystery Man" to frame Johnson because they did not want him to win Olympic gold. Ben Johnson: 'My revelations will shock the sporting world'
The experience-its calculated mystery, its silliness-was fun, but the whole phenomenon begs the question: what for?
The death of Hannah Schneider, movie-star beautiful and charismatic, is the mystery at the heart of the novel. Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl: Questions
Why this should come as a surprise is a mystery to me, as I have elaborated on in previous posts. Pious Atheism « Anglican Samizdat
Blackpool have yet to reveal the identity of the mystery man who came so close to signing last week.
Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself. Thomas Paine
The combination of mystery and paranormal is a fond personal favorite, and a reimagining of this story is one I think I would have fun with, from both a creative and a viewer standpoint. MIND MELD: SciFi TV Shows That Deserve A Remake (with Videos)
The explanation lay forever hidden in mystery.
Whether this is another ‘mystery’, or just another step in what many see as an inexorable march to the discovery of life or its footprint on Mars is up to you.
The term 'film noir' gets thoroughly redefined in Bela Tarr's The Man From London, a mystery story cloaked in such stygian darkness that some viewers may succumb to eye strain before its enigmas are unfolded," writes Jonathan Romney at Screen Daily. GreenCine Daily: Cannes. The Man From London.
The paper, "Resolving a zoological mystery: the kouprey is a real species," published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, can be downloaded here. Archive 2007-09-01
Detectives are still trying to unravel the mystery surrounding his death.
Over 50 nurses at the clinic have been struck down with a mystery virus.
The affair is wrapped in mystery.

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