Crossword-Solution: SPHINX
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sphinx | n. | In Egyptian art, an image of granite or porphyry, having a human head, or the head of a ram or of a hawk, upon the wingless body of a lion. |
| Sphinx | n. | On Greek art and mythology, a she-monster, usually represented as having the winged body of a lion, and the face and breast of a young woman. |
| Sphinx | n. | Hence: A person of enigmatical character and purposes, especially in politics and diplomacy. |
| Sphinx | n. | Any one of numerous species of large moths of the family Sphingidae; -- called also hawk moth. |
| Sphinx | n. | The Guinea, or sphinx, baboon (Cynocephalus sphinx). |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with SPHINX (5)
Arriving at Thebes he answered the riddle of the Sphinx and the grateful Thebans made their deliverer king.
Then someone suggested that their plaything should be exhibited in the nearest building, and so I was led past the sphinx of white marble, which had seemed to watch me all the while with a smile at my astonishment, towards a vast grey edifice of fretted stone.
You’d better go to bed.” But before he did so he called gently to Jane upon the opposite side of the sailcloth partition, for he wished to apologize, but he might as well have addressed the Sphinx.
The further we got away, the littler Jim got, and the grander the Sphinx got, till at last it was only a clothespin on a dome, as you might say.
Heavily weights on me at times the burdensome reflection that I cannot honestly say I am confident as to the exact shape of the once-seen, oft-regretted Cube; and in my nightly visions the mysterious precept, “Upward, not Northward,” haunts me like a soul-devouring Sphinx.
Quotes with SPHINX (3)
Yes, an actual full-sized camel. If you find that confusing, just think how the criosphinx must have felt. Where did the camel come from, you ask? I may have mentioned Walt’s collection of amulets. Two of them summoned disgusting camels. I’dmet them before, so I was less than excited when a ton of dromedary flesh flew across my line of sight, plowed into the sphinx, and collapsed on topof it. The sphinx growled in outrage as it tried to free itself. The camel grunted and fart…
Creamy and leggy, with long azure hair and the eyes of a silent-movie star, she moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement that displaces the rigid lines, With lips untaught neither tears nor laughter do I know.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 41 times in crossword archives (1954–2022).