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How can you use “odes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Gladstone, in the midst of his political career, produced a three-volume study of Homer, two long books on Church and State, and a new translation of Horace's Odes ."
His greatest poems, most of them written in that same year, are elegies wrapped as odes.
Also, various celebs pen odes to their favorite TV shows--Robert Pinsky on The Simpsons , Richard Ford on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood , Deepak Chopra on The X-Files.
Perhaps it was formed originaly as a macaronic phrase by students, because of its meter; its earliest OED citation is in the 16th century, when the study of Horace would undoubtedly have been part of a scholar's curriculum (including the memorizing of many of the odes).
Keats is famous for his odes, which are taken to be celebrations; but they are not.