How to use "sphinx" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "sphinx" in popular movie and book plots

  • Reasoning that she may not always be around for her subjects, she reveals that she has created a candy sphinx named Goliad, from her own DNA.  - Goliad (Adventure Time)
  • The bearded man retrieves the box and gives life to the two sphinx statues placed at the doors.  - The Oracle of Delphi (film)
  • Caesar, wandering lonely in the desert night, comes upon the sphinx and speaks to it profoundly.  - Caesar and Cleopatra (play)
  • The next morning, George finds the sphinx in charred ruins and its doors open.  - The Time Machine (1960 film)
  • This leads her to a storage shed where she discovers a man's severed head with a sphinx moth lodged in its throat.  - The Silence of the Lambs (film)

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