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Example sentences for: sphinx

How can you use “sphinx” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

It was, the Sphinx explains, his answer to the riddle: “Man.”
"Jeffersonism is not Clintonism," says historian Sean Wilentz in the New Republic . The Chicago Tribune , however, concludes that American Sphinx makes manifest so many inconsistencies in Jefferson's thought that it may unwittingly be "the most critical biography of Jefferson published in this century."
Book -- American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson , by Joseph J. Ellis;
Poet Muriel Rukeyser envisions Oedipus “old and blinded” asking the Sphinx why he hadn't recognized his own mother.