Example sentences for: satyr

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

  • A scene just before the intermission, when the family is sitting down for the Jewish satyr, does drag on a bit, but otherwise, the pace of the humor is right on.

  • Also, anyone discussing the Satyridae family of butterflies will know that just plain pegala designates the goggle eye the wood satyr , the blue-eyed grayling , the wood nymph .

  • The appalled Apollo makes an operatic gesture of horror over his muscular lover, while a satyr and a parrot (symbols of forbidden lust) stare sardonically down at the proceedings.

  • That's the headline that didn't run in Sunday's papers, suggesting that, contrary to many News Quiz responses, Clinton's portrayal as prancing national satyr is ended.

  • Other lepidopterists named the wood satyr the blue-eyed grayling , others, the goggle eye .


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