CIPHER in a Sentence
Learn CIPHER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
20 example sentences for CIPHER, such as:
1. The message was written in cipher.
2. 'I thought they were written in cipher,' I said.
3. Leave me alone to cipher out a way so we can run in the daytime if we want to.
4. He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, to write, to cipher.
5. Knitting, sewing, reading, writing, ciphering, will be all you will have to teach.
2. 'I thought they were written in cipher,' I said.
3. Leave me alone to cipher out a way so we can run in the daytime if we want to.
4. He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, to write, to cipher.
5. Knitting, sewing, reading, writing, ciphering, will be all you will have to teach.
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Meanings and Examples of CIPHER
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cipher
n. nonentity; worthless person or thing; zero
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1 Leave me alone to cipher out a way so we can run in the daytime if we want to.
2 So the duke said it was kind of hard to have to lay roped all day, and he'd cipher out some way to get around it.
3 Benedetto could read, write, and cipher perfectly, for when the fit seized him, he learned more in a day than others in a week.
4 Connie, who understood nothing at all of the technicalities of motors, and who had had experience of breakdowns, sat patiently on the bank as if she were a cipher.
5 Lady Bertram seems more of a cipher now than when he is at home; and nobody else can keep Mrs. Norris in order.
6 Afterwards he had, to fulfill the prearranged cipher, to fill in any two words in each space.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
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7 He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, to write, to cipher.
8 Anne of Austria re-entered her apartment, and came out again almost immediately, holding a rosewood casket in her hand, with her cipher encrusted with gold.
9 But three of the number can read: none write or cipher.
10 But, at last I began, in a purblind groping way, to read, write, and cipher, on the very smallest scale.
11 The word came by long-distance telephone in a cipher code, just a little while before each race; and any man who could get the secret had as good as a fortune.
12 'I thought they were written in cipher,' I said.
13 They must first have the common school to teach them to read, write, and cipher; and they must have higher schools to teach teachers for the common schools.
14 By and by he said he had ciphered out two or three ways, but there warn't no need to decide on any of them yet.
15 Knitting, sewing, reading, writing, ciphering, will be all you will have to teach.
Example Sentence:
1 Lacking his code book, the spy was unable to decode the message sent to him in cipher.
2 She claimed her ex-husband was a total cipher and wondered why she had ever married him.
3 The message was written in cipher.