Example sentences for: phallic

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

  • The sexual pulse of a lot of his objects--"There is something erotic in all my work," Smith admitted--is evident in loud titles for sculptures like She Who Must Be Obeyed and Jim's Piece . He constructed almost as many phallic shapes as Kusama and filled his notebooks with erotic doodlings comparing the sex organs of humans and flowers, or depicting Christ--Smith was a Catholic--with breasts.

  • Even his face has a phallic quality.

  • 1891-98, Ringling Museum of Arts, Sarasota, Fla.), an armored boat with oversize phallic anchors looms in a harbor, the banks of which are lined with scantily clad women.

  • This was proved Wednesday in New Delhi's Asian Age, which carried a cartoon showing a sick-looking fellow identified as the Indian "coalition government" being addressed by a doctor holding a phallic, rocketlike object labeled "nuclear test."

  • Wait a frigging second--could you please explain to me the phallic symbolism of herring?


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