Sentence for sphinx | Use sphinx in a sentence

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• Nor vainly to the Sphinx thy voice was raised! (10)
• His face was as inscrutable as that of the sphinx. (1)
• His appearance was that of a man to whom the sphinx has whispered. (10)
• The Sphinx mouth of the married woman at war and at bay must be left unriddled. (10)
• And Nedda sat with hands tight clenched in her lap, motionless as a young crouching sphinx. (8)
• The Sphinx of Mrs. Pagnell had been communing with himself unwontedly during the recent weeks. (10)
• They must take Lord Ormont for a perfect sphinx; unless they are so silly as to think they may despise him, or suppose him indifferent. (10)

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Definition of sphinx:

• sphinx, sfingks, n. a monster of greek mythology, with the head of a woman and the body of a lioness, that proposed riddles to travellers, and strangled those who could not solve them: an enigmatic or inscrutable person: a hawk-moth: the guinea baboon. (0)

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