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Example sentences for: sphinx

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Poet Muriel Rukeyser envisions Oedipus “old and blinded” asking the Sphinx why he hadn't recognized his own mother.
A sphinx has the body of a lion and the face of a man.
Book -- American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson , by Joseph J. Ellis;
Standing at the base of the sacred causeway that once linked the pyramids to the Nileisthe Sphinx, the enigmatic depiction of Khephren with his head attached to a lion’s body.