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
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
A memoir, Piepenbring writes in his introduction, might have enhanced the singer’s sphinxlike persona.
From Washington Post • Oct. 30, 2019
Was it about a woman or about some strange sphinxlike animal?
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
