Thesaurus / sphinxlike

sphinxlike

How to use sphinxlike in a sentence

They all looked eagerly at the criminologist on his return, but his face was sphinxlike.

THE BLACK BOXE. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM

But Burr, who was in New York, could not easily be communicated with and kept his sphinxlike silence.

Good and evil is the challenging riddle which life places sphinxlike before every intelligence.

Master then sat sphinxlike in an unrelenting silence, punctuated by the boy's sobs for mercy.

But I really came to ask you to do something for me, Miss Roscoe, she smiled at the sphinxlike figure.

Slowly the Ohio receded from him, somber, implacable, sphinxlike.

MORTMAINARTHUR CHENY TRAIN

The doctor sat with one leg crossed, smoking a cigarette, his expression sardonic, sphinxlike.

Her husband sat unbendingly silent, in a sphinxlike attitude that gave no outward indication of his mental uneasiness.

The granite rests in unalterable calm, sphinxlike, on the edge of the watery desert.

IN THE OPENSTANTON DAVIS KIRKHAM

Katherine for once took up the gauntlet, while one of her sphinxlike smiles hovered about her mouth.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985