How to Use Hades in a Sentence

Hades

noun
  • But Quinn's Hades, like Old Scratch, gets some of the best lines.
    Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2023
  • Death was not a final stop but rather part of a process by which the soul went to Hades.
    Teju Cole, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • In a way, Cerberus was not just the guard dog of Hades, but of Earth itself.
    Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Back in 2020, Forward Air was hacked by a group known as Hades.
    Levon Gasparian, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The wait is over: Hades II launches in early access today.
    Ash Parrish, The Verge, 8 May 2024
  • Fewer still ride that lightning all the way to Cooperstown, through Hades and back, spitting nails with every step.
    Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Harris sourced inspiration from the underworld as Hades, while his husband pulled from the deep blue and dressed as Poseidon, the god of the sea.
    Lydia Price, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2023
  • In order to save the world’s harvests, Zeus convinced Hades to allow Persephone to return to her mother for most of the year and return to the underworld in the winter.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 9 May 2024
  • So the current heat wave, which is a reference to sort of Greek mythology to this ferryman who carried the dead across the waters of the Hades, the space that separates the living and the dead.
    Mark Sovel, USA TODAY, 22 July 2023
  • By comparison with the immortal gods, even the loftiest mortals are losers in the long run (as Achilles realizes in Hades).
    Robert Pogue Harrison, The New York Review of Books, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Olympian legends — including Hades and the thunder god Zeus — now rule the Island in otherworldly rage.
    Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Meanwhile, Persephone makes her usual springtime visit, drawing the attention of her lover, Hades, to the scenario in the nightclub.
    Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The complex, fraught relationship between Persephone and Hades provides one of the two main storylines in Hadestown.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 18 July 2023
  • Fortnite also hinted at the Chains of Hades being another power added on later in the season.
    Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Captain Minnie eventually finds the ship’s commemorative coin with Hades, and Hercules helps her to get it back.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The $69 combination yields a feast for two, considering the meal gets rounded out with clear and comforting beef-radish soup, corn under a cloak of molten mozzarella and steamed eggs, light as clouds (but hot as Hades, so watch out).
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 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
  • More than three years after its initial release, the masochistic psychodrama that is Hades still has the gaming community in a kinky stranglehold — so much so that Netflix is getting in on the action.
    Vulture, 11 Nov. 2023
  • The housekeeper alleges Brown ordered his security to grab Hades and other dogs on the property and remove them from the premises before police arrived.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Alongside this story, set in the twin backdrops of a struggling town and a downtrodden underworld, another love story parallels the leads: the mythic, otherworldly, and downright epic romance of the Greek gods Hades and Persephone.
    Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 28 Nov. 2023
  • His cult of vegetarian geometry enthusiasts believed that the fava bean held the souls of the dead, or that their hollow stems provided elevator service up from Hades.
    Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 13 May 2023
  • In this version, the sensible Eurydice has fallen in love with the idealistic Orpheus but longs for the financial stability guaranteed in the titular underworld — a factory town overseen by Hades and resented by his wife, Persephone.
    Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023

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