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How to use sphinx in a sentence

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The building with the sphinx and obelisks in the center housed Akoun's Beautiful Orient with its bazaar offering wares from the Middle East.
The shy, introverted Gandhi, once described as a sphinx and an enigma, has come a long way in the past six years.
The house features a stone replica of a sphinx at the front door and a statue of the pharaoh Tuthmosis III brought from Luxor in Egypt in the entrance hall.
A slave driver brandishing a whip and a stick presides over Egyptian slaves struggling to move a colossal sphinx covered with hieroglyphs.
The Labyrinth of Egypt Video Slot takes you back to the time of pharaohs, pyramids and the mystifying sphinx.
Dulles, Moses recalls, sat as silent as a sphinx, and the meeting ended inconclusively.
Its fluid curvilinear, concave and convex forms let it appear sculptured rather than built, resembling in its shape a wind swept submarine with the sprawled arms of a sphinx.
Betty smiles so rarely on Mad Men that when she does it holds special importance, akin to a sphinx letting her guard down.
A saccharine smell hangs in the air. A monumental mammy sphinx hardly sounds nuanced.
From then on, Egyptomania and the sphinx, its most representative icon, continued to fascinate and influence the world of the arts.
Something has happened to shake her awake, and now she roars like a wounded lion, a monster or a sphinx.
When the sphinx was crumbling they finally repaired it in plaster, which needs replacing every five years, in order to maintain the point of decay, and clarify the difference.
They were going to see the sphinx and come back with souvenirs.
Rather, it is a kind of mythical or ur-nature, one associated with a primordial existence, chthonic gods and the enigmatic and destructive figure of the sphinx.
It is set in a theme park containing a pyramid, a medieval castle, a sphinx with the face of a lion and a swimming-pool boasting the world's biggest man-made surfing waves.
In appearance the Asian sphinx differed from its Egyptian model most noticeably in the addition of wings to the leonine body, a feature that continued through its subsequent history in Asia and the Greek world.
Jayne Yack at Carleton University in Ottawa revealed that walnut sphinx caterpillars could toot from their sides.
Lack of hair is particular to sphinx cats.
It is believed the sphinx was about to be smuggled out of the country after being stolen from the Montem Rossulum necropolis 60 miles north of Rome.
The Sphinx, aloof from such matters of little consequence, waits patiently beyond the pool.
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The sphinx is a woman, as I will insist to my dying day, if it were my last word!
Between the two is a marble-topped console, with haunched gilt legs ending in sphinx claws.
The site also contains the steps down to the temple of the Greek god Serapis and the column is guarded by a giant statue of an Egyptian sphinx.
Which do you find more impressive, the sphinx or the Pyramids?
Probably King Harmachis had the sphinx altered to look like him.
The sphinx did not slay herself until her riddle had been guessed.
The famous sphinx at Giza in Egypt may be a modified yardang.
This sphinx is the surviving testimonial of the eventful catastrophe.
The key, flash, and sphinx symbolize the three basic categories of intelligence.
It was of white marble, in shape something like a winged sphinx, but the wings, instead of being carried vertically at the sides, were spread so that it seemed to hover.
The sphinx, symbolizing wisdom and silence, represents Human Intelligence.
I found a groove ripped in it, about midway between the pedestal of the sphinx and the marks of my feet where, on arrival, I had struggled with the overturned machine.
For the white leprous face of the sphinx was towards it.Above me towered the sphinx, upon the bronze pedestal, white, shining, leprous, in the light of the rising moon.
The glimmer was an enigma, like the glaucous light from the eye-pupil of a Sphinx.
The Sphinx had made her understand intensely the hatefulness of certain things.
On the parapet, in his old place, the brown dwarf squatted, expressionless as the Sphinx.
The chief thing being why the desert has changed you from a chatterbox to a Sphinx.
His face was almost as inscrutable as that of the Sphinx, or a Cree Indian.
I gazed into the imperturbable face of the Sphinx and wandered among the numerous pyramids of Sakkara.
He gazed pensively at the logs crackling on the hearth and his features were as inscrutably blank as those of the Sphinx.
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