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mystery English

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mystery

A mystery is a secret or hidden matter which can't be explained. She never told me where the money was, and it remains a mystery to me even now. She and her mystery man were seen outside her parents' home. A mystery is a story about a puzzling event: short for mystery story. The police investigation has failed to solve the murder mystery.

mystery

(= secret) something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained how it got out is a mystery it remains one of nature's secrets a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie

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Simple sentences

The dream was a mystery to me.
Space is full of mystery.
The mystery is still unsolved.
He's attracted to mystery.
The Universe is a mystery.
Tom is intrigued by the mystery of Kaspar Hauser.
Despite the importance of sleep, its purpose is a mystery.
Why he killed himself is still a mystery.
The mystery story is so hard that I don't like it.
The mystery contains more dialogue than narrative.
The murder remains a mystery.
Whether Shakespeare wrote this poem or not will probably remain a mystery.
The origins of these people is shrouded in mystery.
Has anybody solved this mystery?
This letter is the only key to the mystery.
One American scientist, William Keeton, used a very interesting experiment to solve this mystery.
I have been absorbed in reading a mystery.
It is still a mystery why he suddenly left the town.
It is still a mystery who wrote the letter.
The affair is still wrapped in mystery.
This is the key to the whole mystery.
No one has succeeded in solving the mystery.
We never got a clear explanation of the mystery.
The cause of the accident is a complete mystery.
Mystery novels are loved by a lot of people.
The mystery of life is beyond human understanding.
Japanese women marry at 26 on average. It is no mystery that the birthrate is declining.

Movie subtitles

And as we continue investigating the clues to this cosmic mystery, we have to remember to keep an open mind.
Now I've got this mystery envelope.
Mystery!
Silence, solitude, mystery.
The belief in evil spirits, sorcery and witchcraft is the result of naive notions about the mystery of the universe.
All victims appear to have the same strange wounds on their necks, the origin of which is still a mystery to doctors.
By the next day the master mind had completely solved the mystery. with the exception of locating the pearls and finding the thief.
Ensanguined national assets of the country, buried treasures sealed by a mystery and shrouded in legend lay in the Ukrainian land for ages.
Some mystery.
What's this mystery about young mrs. Hornblower?
No mystery, sir.
I don't mind his grammatical mistakes, I will overlook his bad punctuation, but the letter has no mystery, no bouquet.
Now enters the mystery man.
As for his death, it's as much a mystery to me as it is to you.
Eroticism relies on mystery.
Holstenwall mystery solved!
There's a mystery in you.
The mystery's all gone.
And second, you've got to remember that India is truly a land of mystery.
It's a perfect night for mystery and horror.
Yes, how you manage to keep your dear wife is a mystery to me.
How they can expect a woman to still have any mystery left for a man. after living in a place like this for three days, I don't know.
You don't need mystery.
Mystery surrounds the shooting.
That girl's a complete mystery to me, outrageous.
How Moore got on the card at all is a mystery.
What does it all mean, this mystery? Where are we?
You know, it's all a big mystery to me.
You're like the mystery that's just beyond sight and sound, always just beyond my reach.
He told me his much-awaited mystery man. would surely arrive on the 6th.
Mystery and discretion are your trump cards.
PERHAPS A GOOD LOOK AT THE GAY MISS LIVVY WILL SOLVE THIS MYSTERY.

News and current affairs

To many, what happened, and what is happening there seems a mystery.
Thus the mystery: how could Dr. Khan - who had no need to possess weapons design information - have handed over detailed bomb design documents to Libya?
Why it is part of the OECD when its remit is global is a mystery few can explain.
Whether China can maintain this capability over the longer term is a mystery to outsiders and Chinese leaders themselves.
Israel's reluctance to rattle its nuclear saber, even in dire circumstances, adds to the mystery.
The answer lies in the nature of scientific mystery.
If it is a mystery, we cannot know what the answer will be ahead of time, nor where that answer will come.
Russia is supposed to be a mystery, but it rarely surprises the world in living down to expectations: most analysts were certain that Putin would find a way to stay in power even without amending the constitution.
This is the mystery Russia faces, for after our boring campaign we left with only a guessing game.
The mystery, until recently, was why economic performance had been so weak.
It was a mystery how the letter was smuggled out of jail.
The mystery is of course easily resolved; its name is differentiation.
There is no mystery about what is going on.
We are evidently facing the mystery of Russian thought that has proved so unfathomable to others, so unyielding to every analytical scalpel, and about which our Slavophiles and Eurasians wrote at length.
There was no evidence yet, contradicting Newton's view - no mystery of expansion to explain.
After 70 days in harbor, the Struma was forced to return to the Black Sea - where it was sunk by a torpedo whose origin remains a mystery.
The reason for today's unsustainably low long-term rates is not a mystery.
In the government's thinking, it does not have to accept responsibility for the attack, the attackers' identity will remain a mystery, and no one will even be accused of or tried for breaking the law.
In his 2000 book The Mystery of Capital, Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto argued that access to credit is a powerful under-used force for development.
Machiavelli's metaphor for the mystery of effective political conduct provides a potent template.
Of course, the inner workings of Kim's regime are shrouded in mystery, not only to the outside world, but also to most of North Korea's government.
MELBOURNE - The harrowing mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared on March 8 with 239 people aboard, may be at least partly resolved within a matter of days.
As is often true of great parties, it can be a bit of a mystery how substantial new markets get started, but we know that it does happen from time to time.

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