sphinxlike
Britishadjective
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 2014, her first large-scale public project was A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby, a colossal sugar-coated monument of a sphinxlike woman located on the former site of Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Factory.
From Slate • Oct. 31, 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
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
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