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

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

And so — serene, smiling, aloof, mysterious, enigmatic and unapproachable — surrounded and protected by a small coterie of friends, Jacqueline Onassis remains sphinxlike, Garbolike, our most tantalizing, most exasperating celebrity.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 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