Nghĩa của từ sphinxes bằng Tiếng Anh

noun
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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.

Đặt câu với từ "sphinxes"

Dưới đây là những mẫu câu có chứa từ "sphinxes", trong bộ từ điển Từ điển Tiếng Anh. Chúng ta có thể tham khảo những mẫu câu này để đặt câu trong tình huống cần đặt câu với từ sphinxes, hoặc tham khảo ngữ cảnh sử dụng từ sphinxes trong bộ từ điển Từ điển Tiếng Anh

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.