How to Use centaur in a Sentence
centaur
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Look at the options: a ram, a lion, a centaur on the hunt.
—Gala Mukomolova, refinery29.com, 26 Mar. 2021
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On one of these cups, Cupid tugs the male centaur’s hair to annoy him.
—Melik Kaylan, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2018
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As a centaur grabs a woman by the neck, a Lapith man dives at its feet.
—Dominic Green, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
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Markece tattooed a centaur with a bow and arrow on his client's neck.
—Gabi Thorne, Allure, 2 Feb. 2022
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In the rankings of unusual critters, the Slingshot is up there with the sphinx, centaur, and chimera.
—Alex Davies, WIRED, 4 July 2018
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Judi Dench fighting a centaur on the moon, and a goose doing Pilates.
—John Oliver Marries A Cabbage, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2022
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Such half-human, half-A.I. teams, known as centaurs, might still be able to beat the best humans and the best A.I. engines working alone.
—James Somers, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
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On the 13th, healing centaur Chiron shares a minor aspect with the Sun, giving us the chance to mend and evolve our hearts.
—Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 13 Feb. 2022
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In another hall, art students sketched a sculpture of a centaur from the Parthenon Marbles.
—Alex Marshall, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
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In Greek mythology, Chiron was a centaur and the son of Titan.
—Meghan Rose, Glamour, 11 Aug. 2022
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The person who was in the centaur [costume] behind [John Milhiser] kind of got dragged behind him.
—Jenna Marotta, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2017
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Hercules is also thought to be featured, fighting a centaur, and so is Cupid.
—Stephen Castle, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2017
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The scene cuts back and forth between Driver and the horse until the two become one as a centaur — imagery that left social media users swooning for the actor.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2021
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Pelion is the mythical home of Chiron, the wisest of the centaurs, who lived in a cave in the mountains and educated Achilles, the great hero of the Trojan War, in the healing arts.
—Charlotte Higgins, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2023
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The mosaic may also depict the Greek hero Hercules fighting with a centaur.
—National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2017
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Wild horses couldn't drag Adam Driver fans away from his shirtless centaur fragrance ad.
—Brett McKeehan, CNN, 7 Aug. 2021
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All around us in the sanctuary, crumbling frescoes reached up into the nave: centaurs and griffins, eagle knights and coyote warriors.
—Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
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The same day, the centaur Chiron turns direct in Aries, ending its moonwalk that began on July 23.
—Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 21 Dec. 2023
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That might be attributed to the fact that the ride includes things like gnomes acromantulas, cornish pixies, centaurs and Fluffy the three-headed dog.
—Sarah Sekula, USA TODAY, 11 June 2019
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Spencer's depiction of the Manticore is one of the funniest parts of the movie, alongside the brothers' step-dad, a clumsy centaur voiced by Mel Rodriguez, who serves as the butt of the brothers' jokes.
—Nicole Ludden, azcentral, 4 Mar. 2020
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Or maybe a Hollywood take on a centaur: half character actor and half leading man.
—Scott Huver, CNN, 26 Sep. 2019
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It's also represented by an archer, but this archer is a mythical centaur, a creature that is half-man, half-horse.
—Gabi Thorne, Allure, 2 Feb. 2022
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Like a centaur itself, Centaurworld is a hybrid of moods, styles, and genres.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 30 July 2021
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That is what this centaur of a play is like, too: a tragic torso from which comedy sprouts, ungainly and irrepressible, singing a song of hope.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2019
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This might seem like a fantastic mutation–something like a human and a horse being joined into a centaur.
—Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2012
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Together, both stars are known as pointer stars that guide skywatchers to the Southern Cross, which is tucked away underneath the centaur’s hind quarters.
—Andrew Fazekas, National Geographic, 5 Aug. 2016
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The mythical centaur is the ninth largest constellation in the entire sky and contains two of the top 10 most brilliant stars, making it a real jewel of the southern heavens.
—Andrew Fazekas, National Geographic, 5 Aug. 2016
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Pilots, in other words, are already skilled, safe, and effective centaurs.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Sep. 2021
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The statement also notes that the drawings of the creatures, which include centaurs, birds, sea creatures and a warrior fighting a panther, were done in red with evidence of gilding.
—Fox News, 14 Jan. 2020
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Ornate carving on the covers — a centaur on Friedrich’s and a siren for Anna’s — evoked ideas of virility, fertility and desire.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 5 Apr. 2024
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