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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Behind them, the huge ugly building crouched like a sphinx , purring through iron tonsils.
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His sometimes enigmatic expression and behaviour were likened to that of the sphinx in cartoonists' caricatures.
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I was surprised, therefore, to find three sphinx caterpillars still feeding on the ash sapling next to the cabin.
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Luxor, built in the shape of a pyramid, complete with a sphinx out front.
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Mrs Nina Pender was less a pseud than a sphinx .
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Or a monstrous mysterious sphinx , aloof from all that lives.
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Phalle made a sphinx , which also served as her home over the several years of work on the project.
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She sat in the sphinx position, with her eyes closed.