Example sentences for: goddesses

How can you use “goddesses” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Titian painted great ladies young and old, saints, goddesses, and successful prostitutes, all equally delicious to look at.

  • Crowds of humble mortals stride the pavements down below while, three or four stories above, on the façades of buildings, a very different crowd of carved stone beings, the Olympian gods and goddesses, throng the upper air, in clear illustration of the dualistic character of all existence: mortals below, immortals above, flesh here, stone there; the ever-changing, the everlasting.

  • These peoples revered the forces of nature personified by innumerable gods and goddesses whose activities and moral guidelines are chronicled in prayers, hymns, and poetic sacred epics of great antiquity.

  • (In Spanish the word for “apple” and “street block” are the same  — manzana — allowing for a play on words alluding to the apple in Greek mythology, which was awarded to the most beautiful among three goddesses — a contest that led inevitablyto trouble.)

  • Campbell held that the ancient mythologies and religions are allegorical and that there was no real distinction between gods and goddesses, who were given sexual identity when in human form only to make them more meaningful.


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