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

This sphinxlike silence is, in turn, conducive to a second, more intangible function: to serve as a conduit for mass emotion, a projection screen for national yearning or catharsis.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2019

“You suffer,” Bobbi observes in her sphinxlike way, to which Frances replies, wryly, “Everyone suffers.”

From Slate • Aug. 3, 2017

I sat the way 1 had seen them do, sphinxlike, pretending unawareness.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin