riddle

[ US /ˈɹɪdəɫ/ ]
[ 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

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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'

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