The man "came through" and immediately suffered a massive heart attack, living just long enough to utter a single cryptic phrase:

Tr'akul's cryptic phrase told Spock that the notorious smuggler was no longer in charge of what would happen next.

The R&R; operator has a myriad of information, and all it takes to get this data is mumbling cryptic phrases.

The Colonel sits cross-legged, speaking in cryptic phrases punctuated by long silences.

She'd often communicate with a cryptic phrase, a gesture of her finger, an eyebrow raised like a witch casting a spell.

Joffre replied with one of his cryptic phrases, "That may be your plan; it is not mine."

It would make more sense, he thought, than the idea that all these cryptic phrases and convoluted narratives actually meant something practical.

With that rather cryptic phrase, he and his bodyguards moved through the crowd, taking my gun with them.

"Claude saw," she repeated her cryptic phrase of the morning, playing it like a trump card in her bid for attention.

And she wondered exactly what he meant by that nearly cryptic phrase but was too afraid to ask.