talk in riddles in a sentence

talk in riddles in a sentence

Why does everyone here need to talk in riddles ?

She wished people wouldn’t talk in riddles .

For Christ’s sake, you’re talking in riddles .

She also wished he would stop talking in riddles and make sense.

When Tweedledum and Tweedledee talk to Alice they are almost talking in riddles .

He was talking in riddles .

He does talk in riddles !

Veronica frightened Nikki by talking in riddles , saying that Joshua was upstairs and would be asleep for a very long time.

She talks in riddles and rhymes, sings some “mad” and bawdy songs about death.

Her personality is flirty and playful (coinciding with the legend that the sea-goddess Calypso was something of a seductress), and she likes talking in riddles , perhaps taking joy in allowing people to figure things out by themselves.

International media coverage of his win reported his humble background, poetry, intellect and short stature (he stands 5 ft 4 in), with “The Washington Post” noting “local satirists sometimes depict him as an elf, hobbit or leprechaun talking in riddles and verse”.

Stebbins has many strange mannerisms, often talking in riddles to Garraty to teach him a vital lesson–and then later recanting them as lies.

He says that Wilko always talked in riddles with him, became jealous at his popularity and so sold him to the scum so he would appear to be a traitor.

I’ve no wish to stand here talking in riddles .’

Let me go and kindly stop talking in riddles !’

‘Stop talking in riddles and explain what’s going on!’

When approached by one of the distraught children of the person held at blame, Pastor Hollins mumbled a few words trying to justify himself and said, “I seem to talk in riddles sometimes, don’t I?”



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