Example sentences for: trojan

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

  • "Year of the Trojan Horse," proclaimed one New York Times headline the day after the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong was returned to China.

  • Stress (evident in terms like prowler, skulker, lurker , as well as Trojan horse, worm, vulture, leech ) is soothed with (or disguised by) a variety of linguistic palliatives: generous helpings from pop culture ( cookie monster, Kermit ) and science fiction ( cyberpunk, core wars, cosmic rays, emoticon ); chummy diminutives ( archie, newbie, smiley ); and jingly rhymes ( snail mail ).

  • .. rouat , or the cacophonous: chuchbachuch bauachuch bakaxichuch bazabachuch bachaxichuch bazetophoth bainchoooch . (Psycholinguists like F. Trojan even trace relationships between word sounds and word meanings, the deep, dark vowels like o and u having an awesome, threatening, secretive nature on the one hand, and on the other the lighter ones like e and i often referring to the gentler, pleasanter things--whether in Indo-European or Chinese phonetics.)

  • West's hero climbs into the anus of the wooden Trojan horse and goes wandering through its intestines, having adventures.

  • The familiar story of the Trojan horse appears in Virgil's Aeneid : The horse, with armed men hidden inside, is presented by the Greek enemy to the besieged city of Troy, and brought within its walls.


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