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How to use sphinxlike in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word sphinxlike? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Ask Fossett to explain his motivation and he is characteristically sphinxlike.
It is tempting to describe her as sphinxlike, but then the Sphinx did occasionally speak in public.
I thought it best to maintain a sphinxlike expression on my way back into the house.
Keller might be sphinxlike in newsroom meetings, but he was quick to unleash invective in e-mail responses to critics.
This dominance of the international economy has not been matched… The Japanese are both highly pragmatic and, beneath a sphinxlike surface, highly emotional.
Hoffman doesn't look anything like the real Howe, but he has a classic aging manager's body, with a large, rounded gut, and, like a lot of managers, he's sphinxlike and impervious and surly.
Examples from Classical Literature
For one moment he looked up and met her eyes, and she allowed hers to show that sphinxlike smile before she lowered the lids.
Katherine for once took up the gauntlet, while one of her sphinxlike smiles hovered about her mouth.
The granite rests in unalterable calm, sphinxlike, on the edge of the watery desert.
His manner was sphinxlike again, and the Englishman eyed him curiously, feeling a strong desire to kick him in the shins.
They all looked eagerly at the criminologist on his return, but his face was sphinxlike.
Her husband sat unbendingly silent, in a sphinxlike attitude that gave no outward indication of his mental uneasiness.
Think well of yourself, my friend, think well of your sphinxlike eyes.
Slowly the Ohio receded from him, somber, implacable, sphinxlike.
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