sphinx

How To Use sphinx In A Sentence

• On the tabletop inlays and the ivory panels, the predators include griffins and sphinxes, composite creatures based on the leonine form, while the bowl depicts lions in positions of attack.
• They were going to see the sphinx and come back with souvenirs.
• The Sphinx, aloof from such matters of little consequence, waits patiently beyond the pool.
• His alcoholism took a toll on his enigmatic, sphinx-like charm.
• Walking back to the Lokosphinx, we watch Army conscripts in greatcoats and fur-flapped caps breaking the ice with bludgeons and pouring hot water on the snow.
• Their inscrutable, sphinx-like logic can prove hypnotizing, and even the brave of heart and nimble of mind may find him or herself captivated.
• The other two, Zinner and the drummer Brian Chase - a bespectacled, sphinx-like jazzhead - don't say much.
• "No," she said, flashing me a sphinx-like smile.
• Capturing this quality - inscrutable and Sphinx-like - lies at the heart of Judi Dench's performance as the late British novelist Iris Murdoch.
• Hybrid creatures, such as sphinxes, harpies, sirens, griffons and centaurs, carved on Roman sarcophagi, candelabras, altars and temple friezes, were a direct source of artistic inspiration.