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
In a letter to her loved ones from 1955, Mead directly referenced her life’s sphinxlike quality.
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2024
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
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
