Example sentences for: mythology

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

  • He wrote kind reviews of books on Irish history and mythology by his friend Lady Gregory.

  • This time, many people in Bali followed suit, perhaps attracted by the complex Hindu mythology — the Balinese today still have a love of the old stories — and by the way their local gods could be housed easily in the crowded Hindu pantheon.

  • With Tarzan monopolizing the highest and lowest rungs of the Chain of Being, the "natives" find themselves deprived of the one asset that racist mythology attributed to them, closeness to the animals, leaving them without any particular function in the economy of kitsch literature, except to be rescued by Tarzan from rogue elephants and the occasional witch doctor.

  • Kyushu enjoys its special place in the national mythology as the cradle of Japanese civilization, despite the support of only a meager amount of archeological evidence.

  • This culture-nature split corresponds, in Walcott's personal mythology, with a split in himself: his European education and Caribbean childhood; his two homes, in Boston and St. Lucia; the two races, white and black, of his ancestry; and "the two languages I know--one so rich/ in its imperial intimacies, its echo of privilege,/ the other like the orange words of a hillside in drought--/ but my love of both wide as the Atlantic is large."


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