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
• Two sphinx heads flank the queen, representing her twin sons.
  — Jessica Lynne, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2022
• Against the gray, the amber cliffs seemed more sphinx-like and more menacing.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
• But with a sphinx-like mannerism and pen change for the provocative, only time will tell.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 21 Jan. 2018
• Sphinx of the Second Sun is a mono-blue sphinx that costs two blue and six generic.
  — Joe Parlock, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• In America, the airhead and the sphinx are often one and the same.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Apr. 2022
• Their experiments revealed that this part of the brain could not trigger the sphinx state on its own.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 24 Aug. 2025
• 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
• So how did the sphinx end up in a Philadelphia museum in the first place?
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 13 June 2019
• Mermaids, centaurs, satyrs, and sphinxes.
  — Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
• To dig deeper, the scientists wanted to know whether the sphinx state was just a reflex or a conscious choice.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 24 Aug. 2025
• Each time, the caterpillars tucked their head and thorax downward and froze in the sphinx position.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 24 Aug. 2025
• 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
• Though Napoleon’s troops were accused of defacing the sphinx nothing of the kind ever occurred.
  — Zenger News, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• Mythical creatures — griffins and sphinxes — cover the back.
  — Ryan Brennan april 10, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Apr. 2026
• In the rankings of unusual critters, the Slingshot is up there with the sphinx, centaur, and chimera.
  — Alex Davies, WIRED, 4 July 2018
• The face of the Egyptian sphinx, Selzer says, looks like Mikhail Gorbachev.
  — Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 24 Oct. 2024
• The artifacts included a headless statue, a sphinx and a priest figure.
  — Roisín Savage, NBC news, 22 Aug. 2025
• 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
• The largest sphinx in the Western Hemisphere is on the move for the first time in nearly 100 years.
  — USA TODAY, 13 June 2019
• The sculpture is forty tons of sugar molded into a ghostly white apparition, part mammy, part sphinx.
  — Longreads, 28 Feb. 2018
• 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
• Enter Puma’s current Egypt kit, which features ‘motifs of sphinx, pyramids, and sand dunes’.
  — Nick Miller, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
• 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
• The sphinx’s slow, painstaking journey began Wednesday morning.
  — USA TODAY, 13 June 2019
• 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 sphinx puppets a crouched, contorted warrior who has, apparently, just been made to pulverize his own head.
  — Sophie Madeline Dess, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2022
• 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
• Kidman plays the inscrutably charismatic Masha with a sphinx-like serenity that does not entirely mask the cult-leader gleam in her eye.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2021