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

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

Graham, who was then in her 80s, met the lithe, sphinxlike Naharin and, according to legend, fell in love.

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2015

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

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin