CIPHER in a Sentence

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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.

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 Meanings and Examples of CIPHER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
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.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX.
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.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV.
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.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 44. The Vendetta.
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.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
5  Lady Bertram seems more of a cipher now than when he is at home; and nobody else can keep Mrs. Norris in order.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
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
Context  Highlight   In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
7  He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, to write, to cipher.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
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.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 12 GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
9  But three of the number can read: none write or cipher.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
10  But, at last I began, in a purblind groping way, to read, write, and cipher, on the very smallest scale.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
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.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
12  'I thought they were written in cipher,' I said.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
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.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VI
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.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI.
15  Knitting, sewing, reading, writing, ciphering, will be all you will have to teach.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
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.