How to Use Minotaur in a Sentence

Minotaur

noun

• What if the Minotaur were not the monster but the victim?
  — Vivian Lam, WIRED, 24 Feb. 2023
• On the left is the Minotaur Room, its cavernous mouth the focal point.
  — Max Olesker, Longreads, 13 July 2023
• Now he’s entered the labyrinth but has yet to slay the Minotaur within.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 2 Feb. 2023
• The Greek myths alone — the Minotaur, who was the child of an unholy union between a woman and a bull.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
• The Minotaur is 6-4-2 with the season coming down the stretch, hoping to land a 3A playoff berth.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 19 Jan. 2024
• Electron did to the Minotaur market what the Falcon 9 did to the Atlas V market.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2022
• The story also has ties to Greek mythology with Theseus and the Minotaur.
  — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 5 Jan. 2024
• Once upon a time, the legend goes, Theseus slew the Minotaur and sailed triumphantly home to Athens on a wooden ship.
  — Amy X. Wang Grant Cornett, New York Times, 4 May 2023
• There are so many stories from Greek mythology that have become ubiquitous, like Medusa, or the Minotaur – and there are stories that are a little bit lesser known.
  — Diya Chacko, Orange County Register, 13 Feb. 2024
• Advertisement Greek mythology tells us about the labyrinth, an elaborate structure built by the legendary Daedalus to hold a mythical half man and half bull creature known as the Minotaur.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2024
• The new American Minotaur’s appetite kept the gleaming German factories busy.
  — Yanis Varoufakis, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2024
• The eponymous labyrinth of ancient Greek mythology—the one with the ferocious Minotaur in its depths—is, in descriptions by classical authors, pretty obviously a maze.
  — Hazlitt, 10 Apr. 2024
• Her three battles with the Minotaur are an allegory of creative flexibility (expressed in Graham’s trademark technique of contraction and release) versus rigidity.
  — Christopher Benfey, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
• The exhibition investigates these influences through the lens of four themes that Picasso returned to throughout his artistic career: the hero, the Minotaur, the voyeur and the musketeer.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2024

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024