Example sentences for: herculean

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

  • The producers of Daifotis faced a Herculean task: Survey data showed that their client, the pharmaceutical industry, had an image problem.

  • The category of eponyms might be subdivided to add literatonym (pronounced lit-er-AH-to-nym), meaning a word derived from the name of a person or place in literature and mythonym , meaning a literatonym derived from mythology ( Herculean from Hercules, and, less obviously, martial from Mars).

  • The 1260 carving of biblical themes has clear links to French Gothic sculpture, while drawing on models from Roman and Etruscan sarcophagi — a Herculean Daniel and a Mary inspired by heads of Juno and Phaedra.

  • The album's first single, "Spice Up Your Life," has already performed a Herculean feat: It knocked Elton John's "Candle in the Wind" off the top of the British charts.

  • So even when killers are as peculiar as Furrow, Dahmer, or Ted Kaczynski, the neighbors make a Herculean effort to present their homicidal acquaintance as banal.


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