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
A memoir, Piepenbring writes in his introduction, might have enhanced the singer’s sphinxlike persona.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 30, 2019
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
Al Ulbrickson was silent, calm, sphinxlike, slowly working the gum in his mouth.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
