How to Use harpy in a Sentence

harpy

noun

• One is that late-night Oval Office scene with Amy, which casts Selina as the harpy.
  — Jen Chaney, New York Times, 29 May 2016
• Start out with helpless sheep and move your way up to helpless goblins and harpies.
  — Loresjoberg, WIRED, 18 Jan. 2007
• Alice Glass is a ghostly presence, a shrieking harpy that'll rip your soul or your body.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2017
• Katzner is an experienced bird handler and one of two working with the harpy.
  — Dana Oland, idahostatesman, 12 Mar. 2018
• About the harpy Harpy eagles are native to Panama’s Darien Gap, a 4 million acre swath of roadless rainforest.
  — Dana Oland, idahostatesman, 12 Mar. 2018
• Teri Terrific, as she was known among friends, was much maligned in the film industry as a harpy who exploited Ms. Shields and turned her into an unprotesting meal ticket.
  — Ruth La Ferla, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2018
• On press night, Intel’s processors came through, projecting Ariel onto columns of mosquito netting that descended from the rafters: now a supple sea-nymph, now a vengeful harpy.
  — Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2016

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