Example sentences for: ulysses

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

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

  • All "seven martyrs," as they've been lionized, stayed Republicans and campaigned for Ulysses S. Grant in 1868.

  • Off Grafton Street is Kehoe’s (South Anne Street), a favorite watering spot; and on Duke Street are two pubs with with Ulysses connections — Davy Byrne’s, where Leopold Bloom ate a gorgonzola sandwich and drank a glass of wine, and Bailey’s, a busy, trendy pub on the site of Leopold Bloom’s house.

  • 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.

  • Unlike the literary world, where provocative books such as Ulysses or Lady Chatterley's Lover led to legal battles over obscenity issues, in the movies, no one tried to place fuck onto film until the country was ready for it.


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