Example sentences for: orcus

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

  • Shameless I wait for Orcus to take me away.

  • Had they consulted Jaeger, they would have found that Orcinus is the adjectival form of Orcus ; the Latin name for Hades.

  • Although orca can mean a `dice box' (or a `little barrel'), it also means a `kind of whale, the great killer,' perhaps derived from Orcus . Surely it was in this sense that Linnaeus used it.


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