sphinxes in English

noun

1

a winged monster of Thebes, having a woman's head and a lion's body. It propounded a riddle about the three ages of man, killing those who failed to solve it, until Oedipus was successful, whereupon the Sphinx committed suicide.

Use "sphinxes" in a sentence

1. Not all human-headed animals of antiquity are sphinxes.

2. Nine hundred sphinxes with ram heads, representing Amon, were built in Thebes, where his cult was strongest.

3. The Chariot tarot card depicts a figure sitting inside a vehicle that is being driven by two black and white sphinxes

4. Sculpture set up at the back of the gate comprised many fragments of a life-size statue supported by a plinth bearing Adorsed sphinxes carved in relief

5. The Abbor-Alz are infested with many more monsters than the Cairn Hills, notably manticores, wyverns, a few dragons (fortunately, mostly brass and copper dragons), a few leucrotta and lamia, sphinxes, mountain tigers and weretigresses, many ogres and hill giants, and a few trolls to boot

6. In Rome's Forum of Trajan fragments from Architraval friezes with figurative motifs of seven different types have been discovered over the centuries: eagle-headed griffins and candelabra; eagle-headed griffins and tripods; eagle-headed griffins and cupids; lionheaded griffins, cupids and vases; cupids in acanthus; Victories killing bulls and dressing candelabra; sphinxes

7. In Rome's Forum of Trajan fragments from Architraval friezes with figurative motifs of seven different types have been discovered over the centuries: eagle-headed griffins and candelabra; eagle-headed griffins and tripods; eagle-headed griffins and cupids; lionheaded griffins, cupids and vases; cupids in acanthus; Victories killing bulls and dressing candelabra; sphinxes.