How to Use golem in a Sentence

golem

noun

• When the dust cleared, the golem lay in pieces across the dungeon floor.
  — L.j. Kilgore, Ars Technica, 28 June 2020
• The twist Elsie doesn’t know is, Bernard and his gluey golems trashed the place themselves a while ago.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 13 May 2018
• Charlie, as Nan calls the golem, is made of soot, but he might as well be made of pure love.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2018
• Carlson-Wee is a fan of auger, golem, zcash and monero.
  — Lily Katz, Bloomberg.com, 31 May 2017
• In this way, by erasing and rewriting that letter, the rabbi could start and stop the golem.
  — Deborah Treisma, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
• So in my story the golem is female, made by women, made by a mother and a teenage girl.
  — Denise Davidson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2019
• One day, golems would turn on Their creators, learn how to build more of their own kind, and use their overwhelming numbers to cleanse the Earth of evil.
  — David Canfield, EW.com, 23 Sep. 2019
• Likely, many will glean in Yente’s story certain echoes of the story of the golem, that old Jewish legend from Prague.
  — Deborah Treisma, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
• Otherwise there will be more golems released into the world that will reflect back to us, in language, the worst parts of ourselves.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2023
• For a playground in Jerusalem in 1971, Saint Phalle designed a black-and-white golem, its rippling walls indebted to Gaudí, with three slides formed from its three giant tongues.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2021
• The golem was molded out of clay by an elderly rabbi, who brought his creation to life with a magic spell written on a piece of parchment.
  — Deborah Treisma, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
• The Flamelurker, an imposing golem of fire, looks like a Diablo monster.
  — Julie Muncy, Wired, 24 Nov. 2020
• John’s is a golem, animated by just a few very important words that it’s carried into the future, step by step.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Oct. 2021
• But their mission — to take down Cara Delevingne’s undersketched witch, Enchantress, and her giant golem-like brother — is a bit of a bust.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2021
• The golem also served as an inspiration for Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• This brings to mind the golem of Jewish folklore, a powerful but simple giant made of mud and clay, brought to life in dangerous times to protect European Jews.
  — Daniel Lee, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2017
• The latter is set in 16th-century Prague, where a rabbi creates a golem — a giant clay creature brought to life in order to protect the city’s Jewish community.
  — Elise Morton, Sun Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2023
• His appearance, a gigantic stone golem with catapults built into his shoulders, makes that very clear.
  — Earnest Cavalli, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2009
• In Jewish folklore, a golem is a creature fashioned of clay and brought to life by magic, its Hebrew name suggesting something incomplete or unfinished.
  — Kathleen Rooney, Star Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020
• But given the hitman’s status as a death-dealing golem the Mob occasionally unleashes on its enemies, De Niro’s creaky movement mostly works.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2019
• This entire damage mitigation thing kicked off when PCF patched out a bug that allowed a permanent golem protection shield, reducing damage for an entire run.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• Mary, living in the world of Galvanism, industrial and democratic revolution, and the newfound delight in rationalism, was able to give us a golem without resorting to the supernatural.
  — Cory Doctorow, Slate Magazine, 22 May 2017
• In Jewish folklore, golems are anthropomorphic figures animated by magic, often depicted as large troll-like creatures made from clay or mud.
  — Ferris Jabr, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024