Example sentences for: ulysses

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

  • And, where the reference is made in the first paragraph to “the twanging release of Ulysses' silver bow,” that the bowman is not Ulysses but Apollo, shooting into the Greek camp.

  • "What Ulysses did for Ireland it also did for literature in English, and Texaco , also a masterpiece, does the same for another island, Martinique, and for (here one swallows) literature in French."

  • Oliver St. John Gogarty (Fleet Street), named for the man-of-letters who was the model for a character in Ulysses, has good traditional and other music and a dining room.

  • It would be impossible to compile a definitive glossary for this group, but a few examples follow: the heads (naval colloquialism, dating from the late nineteenth century, said to be from the location of the latrines on a ship); the longs (pet-name for latrines at Brasenose College, Oxford, from c. 1870, so-called because they were built from funds donated by a certain Lady Long); and greenhouses (Ulysses , Book VIII), James Joyce's personal slang for the public toilets after the color of their paint.

  • 3) It celebrates impenetrable highbrow books, such as Joyce's Ulysses , which critics admit to never having read.


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