cryptically

How To Use cryptically In A Sentence

• These blennies are cryptically colored or transparent, heavily scaled, and small.
• But when forced conscription into the military becomes inevasible, I expect young people, at least those able to comprehend the significance of their place in history, to take a stand against the tyranny of war forces of evil cryptically embedded within the polity of a nation having gone wrong. Archive 2006-06-01
• He also, cryptically accused some club presidents of being disingenuous.
• A very obscure one, though - and again referred to only cryptically, even in the more apocryphal works of the time. NIGHT SISTERS
• Mary Virginia often talked as the alchemists used to write -- cryptically, abstrusely, as if to hide the golden truth from all but the initiate. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man
• `we will meet again', he said cryptically
• It is a piscivore that is cryptically silver-colored and optimized for speed and prey capture.
• A large nocturnal (!), cryptically-coloured (!!) terrestrial (!!!) bird, endemic to New Zealand, the kakapo is a specialized foliage-eater that seems to live on a metabolic knife-edge, rather like the Giant panda. Archive 2006-05-01
• As we were seated, our waitperson cryptically asked, ‘Have you dined here before?’
• In the ineradicable central image lies, I suspect, much of the meaning of Fosse's cryptically haunting play: the co-existence in all of us of the craving for death and the instinct for life. I Am the Wind | Michael Billington