How to Use chimera in a Sentence

chimera

noun

• Economic stability in that country is a chimera.
• His own personal chimera is a return to a lost Eden littered with eaten apples.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 Mar. 2024
• In my view, r-star is not a beacon in the sky but a chimera in the eye.
  — Kevin Warsh, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2018
• In essence, the head of the chimera is only there to stabilize the stalk.
  — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 7 Dec. 2020
• In each of these, the advent of the chimera feels like a scourge, an indictment of the world of men.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• In Greek legends, Bellerophon was sent to kill the chimera, and the scene depicts the creature ready to attack.
  — National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2017
• On human-pig chimeras Why please sir, oh yes sir, take mine!
  — Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 31 Dec. 2019
• This mythical chimera has been left in the pages of legend.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2021
• Long had become a chimera, the technical term for the rare person with two sets of DNA.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Dec. 2019
• Nancy emerged as a living chimera: her blood, in a sense, belonged to her twin.
  — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 15 July 2019
• For women, a top job at even one of the top orchestras remains a chimera.
  — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2022
• In the rankings of unusual critters, the Slingshot is up there with the sphinx, centaur, and chimera.
  — Alex Davies, WIRED, 4 July 2018
• In real life, chimeras are rare and not quite as dramatic.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 7 Dec. 2019
• The long slog of the Premier League has proved easy to master in comparison with the chimera of the Champions League.
  — New York Times, 4 May 2021
• Her group has begun to do that with the P. carolinus fireflies but not yet with the chimera-prone P. frontalis species.
  — Joshua Sokol, Quanta Magazine, 20 Sep. 2022
• The strange hero in this chaotic world is Borne, an enigmatic chimera raised by the narrator, Rachel.
  — Nisi Shawl, The Seattle Times, 15 June 2017
• Many of these mouse-rat chimeras lived to adulthood, and one reached its second birthday which, for a small rodent, is old age.
  — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
• By eye, Mercier could see that at least one in every hundred anemone embryos is a chimera.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2011
• Humanity built a refuge called the Ark and developed weapons called Legions to fight the chimera.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2019
• Those are known as chimeras, and they will be variegated depending on where the new plant forms.
  — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 14 Nov. 2019
• So the entire chimera would be a mix of cells from both individuals.
  — Jeremy Rehm, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2018
• These ants aren’t the only animals to be chimeras—mice, rabbits, cats and even humans have chimerism in some cases.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2023
• After just a week, the chimera pigs (and their eight regular pig siblings) died of unknown causes.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 9 Dec. 2019
• Up until last August, there was a ban on federal funding for any chimera research in the U.S.
  — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 27 Jan. 2017
• The health and welfare of a chimera would need to be taken into account, as with any animal scientists use in the lab.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2021
• Until now, when her sight is fixed on the chimera of social justice (against faith in heavenly justice).
  — Armond White, National Review, 28 Apr. 2023
• After the chimeras reached adulthood, the researchers located the spiny rat iPS cells within their bodies.
  — Steph Yin, New York Times, 12 May 2017
• Such mixed-species creatures are known as chimeras, after a monster in Greek mythology.
  — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
• It’s a 6-foot-tall, 20-foot-long creature, a chimera, made of clay and featuring fake eyelashes and dentures, which speaks to both healing and the future.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2022
• For Rohrwacher, a chimera represents what is hoped or wished for but is, in fact, illusory.
  — Armond White, National Review, 3 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024