How to Use sphinx in a Sentence

sphinx

noun

• The question sounds like the set-up to a bad joke or a riddle from a sphinx.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024
• And with her new theme park, the sphinx-like mystery of Banks’s smize lives on.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2020
• The largest sphinx in the Western Hemisphere is on the move for the first time in nearly 100 years.
  — USA TODAY, 13 June 2019
• In America, the airhead and the sphinx are often one and the same.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Apr. 2022
• Sphinx of the Second Sun is a mono-blue sphinx that costs two blue and six generic.
  — Joe Parlock, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• Against the gray, the amber cliffs seemed more sphinx-like and more menacing.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
• Only the sphinxes stand guard vainly over the rivers, which are leaving, and the lions and the griffins.
  — Eugene Ostashevsky, The New York Review of Books, 4 May 2023
• But with a sphinx-like mannerism and pen change for the provocative, only time will tell.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 21 Jan. 2018
• In the rankings of unusual critters, the Slingshot is up there with the sphinx, centaur, and chimera.
  — Alex Davies, WIRED, 4 July 2018
• So how did the sphinx end up in a Philadelphia museum in the first place?
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 13 June 2019
• Bing settled into the sphinx, ears pricked up, tail tucked under his rear.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
• By the end, in one of the video’s best shots, she and the dancers are going wild in the Louvre basement, and topless men are jumping for joy in front of the sphinx.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 17 June 2018
• Two sphinx heads flank the queen, representing her twin sons.
  — Jessica Lynne, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2022
• Moving the iconic statue—which is the largest sphinx in the western hemisphere—takes more than a dolly and a few burly movers.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 13 June 2019
• June 13 is moving day, the first time the sphinx has left the Egyptian galleries in nearly a century.
  — Stephan Salisbury, https://www.inquirer.com, 5 June 2019
• Dunham still has three pets at home: a sphinx cat named Irma and poodles Karen and Susan.
  — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 15 June 2018
• Heroes of Ruin takes place in the fantasy realm of Veil where Ataraxis, the sphinx ruler of hub world Nexus, is dying.
  — WIRED, 19 July 2012
• Though Napoleon’s troops were accused of defacing the sphinx nothing of the kind ever occurred.
  — Zenger News, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• The coy pose slightly recalls del Valle’s sphinx, as do the chalky pink-and-technicolor-unicorn vibes.
  — Sophie Madeline Dess, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2022
• Advertisement For most people, that position, a bit like the sphinx pose in yoga, is hard to hold for more than a minute on dry land.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2023
• The long-standing Russian leader, in control of Russia in some way for more than two decades, remains as inscrutable as a sphinx.
  — Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2021
• This was because Rama-Tut was a time traveler from the 40th century, and the great Egyptian sphinx was his time machine.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2023
• The third shape, which comprises the biggest chunk of the statues, is one of a sphinx (a lion's body and a human's head), with the statues stretching over a mile from the Precinct of Mut to the Luxor Temple.
  — Hatem Maher, ABC News, 23 Nov. 2021
• The smiling sphinx statue is not to be confused with the far larger sphinx at the Giza pyramid complex, which measures 73 meters long and 20 meters high.
  — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
• From the ruins [of the stock-market crash], lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rises the Empire State Building.
  — James S. Russell, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2019
• Among towering Asian statues and a replica of an Egyptian sphinx, more than 100 people made the wedding feel like a mini Met Gala.
  — Ernest Owens, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2021
• Not much is known about the new content other than a tantalizing shot of a level featuring stormy weather and a sphinx.
  — Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2020
• Over 100 million years in the making, sculpting by heavy winds, pouring rain and erosion have given the sandstone monoliths a sphinx-like effect.
  — Nick Kontis, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2018
• The softness of these textures, paired with the tyrannical posture of the sphinx, turns the painting into a cryptic yet alluring riddle.
  — Sophie Madeline Dess, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2022
• See the huge sphinx head, prohibition-era liquor bottles, makeup, and tobacco tins at the Dunes Center.
  — Mimi Slawoff, Travel + Leisure, 30 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024