Example sentences for: olympian

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

  • His is an Olympian degradation.

  • Yet that such an ordering hardly induces in the author of the aforementioned trois such satisfaction as might be hoped to accrue to one looking down with Olympian detachment from beyond the vale of longevity is a statement the validity of which cannot be called readily into question.

  • 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.

  • The Temple of Olympian Zeus is dedicated to Zeus, “king” of the Greek gods.

  • Later, Olympian gods usurped Gaia but the sanctuary retained its role.


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