[
US
/ˈɹɪdəɫ/
]
[ UK /ɹˈɪdəl/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈɪdəl/ ]
VERB
- speak in riddles
-
pierce with many holes
The bullets riddled his body -
spread or diffuse through
An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration
His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks
music penetrated the entire building - explain a riddle
- separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
-
set a difficult problem or riddle
riddle me a riddle
NOUN
- a difficult problem
- a coarse sieve (as for gravel)
How To Use riddle In A Sentence
- I'm just a little bit caught in the middle. Life is a maze and love is a riddle, I don't know where to go, can't do it alone.
- Advancing age has occasionally brought resolution, more often just a little understanding, to many of these riddles, but not necessarily to the resilient ambiguity of history.
- She is an enigma wrapped in a riddle trapped in a really bad haircut. Times, Sunday Times
- A 19-year-old man was killed and four other people, including a pregnant woman, were injured when their car was riddled with bullets by the soldiers.
- There be sixty-and-four flowers-de-luce, and the riddle is to show how I may remove six of these so that there may yet be an even number of the flowers in every row and every column. The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems
- The Meal Maker Belgian waffle baker and sandwich griddle is a big stand-in for à full stovetop.
- At my cousin's wedding some five years back, the most popular dish was a mixed vegetable fry prepared entirely on the 'tawa' griddle. Musical Cooking - Paneer Tawa Masala
- The criminal inquiry relies on circumstantial evidence and does not solve the riddle of MH370. Times, Sunday Times
- Oil the inside of the metal rings and the surface of the griddle. Times, Sunday Times
- the syllabic `nl' in `riddle'