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
Cryptics, by comparison, age gracefully: their sphinxlike wordplay has a long shelf life.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 26, 2019
“You suffer,” Bobbi observes in her sphinxlike way, to which Frances replies, wryly, “Everyone suffers.”
From Slate • Aug. 3, 2017
And so — serene, smiling, aloof, mysterious, enigmatic and unapproachable — surrounded and protected by a small coterie of friends, Jacqueline Onassis remains sphinxlike, Garbolike, our most tantalizing, most exasperating celebrity.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2015
Was it about a woman or about some strange sphinxlike animal?
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
