Example sentences for: pantheon

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

  • It is something of a pantheon for the House of Savoy, buried in the basilica’s Crypt of Kings.

  • This "spankingly inventive" (Brett Kelly, New York ) collection of humorous essays (most of which originally appeared in The New Yorker ) puts Martin back in the comic pantheon after a recent series of disappointing films.

  • A new biography of Billy Tipton--an obscure jazzman who was revealed, only at death, to have been a jazzwoman--elevates its subject into the "pantheon of legendary women who have successfully passed as men" (Holly Brubach, the New York Times Book Review ). Middlebrook, a professor at Stanford, uses Tipton to support the postmodernist contention that gender is a historic construction, but critics mostly wax prurient.

  • Long compared to the Beatles, the British bad boys of pop "unabashedly lay claim to the pantheon of rock greats" (Elysa Gardner, the Los Angeles Times ). Other critics disagree.

  • In this obscure pantheon, a place must be reserved for Klaus Kinski, the erratically gifted Polish-German actor and noted mal vivant , who tried to publish the English version of his autobiography in 1988 under the massively ironic title All I Need is Love . The book was caught in a copyright dispute between Random House and a West German publisher, with huge libel problems looming; it was withdrawn shortly after publication, and became one of the books most often stolen from public libraries.


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