Example sentences for: mythological

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

  • The playwright set Midsummer in an ancient, vaguely mythological Greece in which intercourse between mortals and fairies is meant to be commonplace.

  • In the humanist High Renaissance, golden hair brought to mind the secular and classical beauty of Venus and her mythological colleagues, whom such beauties often posed as.

  • Ever since the mythological paintings, he had aimed somehow to go beyond painting, to plug into the inner recesses of the soul.

  • The entries include the facetious ( throat trouble Death by hanging; get or have a permanent To be executed by electrocution), the legal and legalistic ( executory devise A situation in which no estate vests under the will until the occurrence of a future event), the jargon-based ( psycho-weaponry Fear of death implanted in the minds of victims by terrorists; performance suicide Suicide in response to a sense of failure in meeting society's standards), the poetic ( pull a Frankie and Johnny To kill one's husband in revenge), the religious and mythological ( Petbe Egyptian myth .

  • By 1870, when he was in his mid-30s, he had left large-scale historical and mythological subjects behind for good.


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