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Example sentences from the Web for sphinxlikeHis face, human till now, took on its familiar, sphinxlike look. The Girl in the Mirror|Elizabeth Garver Jordan Katherine for once took up the gauntlet, while one of her sphinxlike smiles hovered about her mouth. The Career of Katherine Bush|Elinor Glyn No wonder he “crouches in sphinxlike silence 199 on the curbstone.” The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance|Paul Elmer More The doctor sat with one leg crossed, smoking a cigarette, his expression sardonic, sphinxlike. A Man to His Mate|J. Allan Dunn
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adjectivelike the Sphinx; enigmatic or inscrutable Words nearby sphinxlikesphingomyelin, sphingomyelin lipidosis, sphingomyelin phosphodiesterase, sphingosine, sphinx, sphinxlike, sphinx moth, sphragistic, sphragistics, sp. ht., sphygmic Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to sphinxlikeenigmatic, impenetrable, unintelligible, incomprehensible, unfathomable, mystical, mystifying, perplexing, puzzling, cryptic, unknown, inscrutable, magical, inexplicable, baffling, dark, strange, secretive, curious, obscure |