How to Use Demeter in a Sentence

Demeter

noun

• This post contains spoilers for The Last Voyage of the Demeter.
  — Megan McCluskey, Time, 11 Aug. 2023
• The cast from Bram Stoker’s novel are transposed to space junkers, who come across the derelict spaceship Demeter.
  — Vulture, 13 Aug. 2023
• With therapy, Demeter has relearned how to think and talk about food.
  — Audrey Richardson and Aurora Sousanis, Detroit Free Press, 17 Mar. 2024
• The Last Voyage of the Demeter offers an inside look at all the horrors that play out on the ship throughout its final journey.
  — Megan McCluskey, Time, 11 Aug. 2023
• The Last Voyage of the Demeter is a threadbare high-concept story given the high-thread-count treatment — a lovely piece of luxury pulp.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2023
• Her writing is lucid and her tone is warm; in her telling, certain myths, such as the one about Demeter and Persephone, are powerfully moving.
  — Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2023
• Price: From $14 Demeter makes the most unique fragrances, replicating the scents of everything from vanilla cake batter to grass, from fireplaces to paperbacks.
  — Lois Alter Mark, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• Myth: Persephone, daughter of Zeus and Demeter, was gathering flowers when Hades burst from the underworld in his black chariot and abducted her.
  — Jay Katsir, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• Or operatic Demeter, plunging the whole world into winter with her sorrow.
  — Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 29 July 2023
• There were deities who represented worldly bounty: Gaia (earth), Demeter (harvest), Plutus (wealth).
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 10 June 2023
• Sometimes these goddess figures are based on specific ancient deities, such as Persephone, Demeter and Hekate, and sometimes they are worshipped more generally as representations of various phases of life.
  — Alyssa Beall, USA TODAY, 13 May 2023

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024