sphinxlike

Example Sentences

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Within hours of arriving in Venice, he begins to suspect that the city itself, with its disorienting streets and shady denizens, is somehow in cahoots with his sphinxlike wife to betray him.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

This sphinxlike silence is, in turn, conducive to a second, more intangible function: to serve as a conduit for mass emotion, a projection screen for national yearning or catharsis.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2019

A woman with a sphinxlike smile who gave nothing away during her three-day Olympic-related visit to South Korea as brother Kim Jong Un’s special envoy.

From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2018

The Klimtian iconography of sphinxlike women amid cosmic glitter was less familiar in 1980 than it is today; blockbuster exhibitions of Viennese art had yet to travel the world.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 28, 2015

Beside him, his daemon lay sphinxlike on the carpet, swishing her tail occasionally and gazing unblinkingly at Lyra.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman