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
A memoir, Piepenbring writes in his introduction, might have enhanced the singer’s sphinxlike persona.
From Washington Post • Oct. 30, 2019
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
The vast blocks of polystyrene foam at the heart of Ms. Walker’s sphinxlike monument have been cut up and cleaned and taken away for recycling by its supplier, the Insulation Corporation of America.
From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2014
Was it about a woman or about some strange sphinxlike animal?
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
