sphinxlike

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sphinxlike
Adjective
  • Neutral, consistent light beats filtered, shadowy shots every time.
    Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
  • This show explores the titular shadowy organization, featured in both existing shows and many of Rice’s books, that tracks and controls vampires, witches, and other supernatural creatures around the world.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The old woman is speaking, but her voice is far away and indistinct.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Their experiences were dismissed as indistinct from men’s, shaped by patriarchal assumptions about heroism.
    Christopher P. Davey, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The team connected the device to a circuit board with an amplifier – to boost faint UVA signals – and a Bluetooth chip to send real-time data to a user's smartphone.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Supermoons can appear up to 14% larger and 30% brighter than the faintest moon of the year.
    Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • When opinions overtake data, the path forward becomes shrouded in darkness, and the future becomes uncertain.
    Sheldon Jacobson, Twin Cities, 25 Sep. 2025
  • But amid the hype around European defense, Muirhead conceded that the exit trajectory for many startups in the sector remains shrouded in uncertainty.
    Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The downstream environment remains clouded by policy uncertainty.
    SJ Guest Editorial, Sourcing Journal, 14 Oct. 2025
  • This may be a one-off in an area — AI and the need for the US to win — that’s less clouded by the ideology that drives the president.
    Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Barr offered a harsher critique of the subsidies that signaled his disapproval but was ultimately also noncommittal.
    Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 23 Oct. 2025
  • McDaniel was noncommittal on Wednesday.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • These shaded nurseries are the perfect place for young saguaros to mature.
    John Leos, AZCentral.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Each of its 18, double-story villas has a private pool, a shaded courtyard, and a veranda that looks out across the waterways into the dense teak forest.
    Marion Miller, Travel + Leisure, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • And don’t forget to take in the surrounding Carpathian Mountain landscape with its misty dense forest and nearby castles and medieval towns that are equally worthy of a visit.
    Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Amelia Gray Hamlin Amelia Gray Hamlin partnered her black lace get-up with a sinister makeup look involving misty gray shadow.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 19 Sep. 2025
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“Sphinxlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sphinxlike. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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