How to Use odyssey in a Sentence

odyssey

noun

• The story is about the emotional odyssey experienced by a teenage girl.
• Promising that Sanna’s odyssey, on and off the ice, is far from over.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 16 Mar. 2024
• Star Wars isn’t the only space odyssey that’s inspired epic Lego sets.
  — Gabrielle Hondorp, Popular Mechanics, 9 Jan. 2023
• And that led me on this 27-year odyssey that only ended last week.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Aug. 2022
• Right now, this odyssey can’t be outsourced to the AI assistants on the market.
  — Kathy Pham, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2024
• Downhill to one’s shrink, then an uphill struggle on the walk back: a very Eliot-like odyssey.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
• This is the startup odyssey, a voyage not for the timid but for the bold who dare to dream differently.
  — Ranghan Venkatraman, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
• Slothrop’s weird odyssey, and the novel’s seeming chaos, are ordered by one thing: the rocket.
  — John Semley, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023
• All told, the trip to campus — now an odyssey of trains, buses, and subways — takes as long as two hours.
  — Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2022
• The entire album has this mind-melting funk-rock odyssey style that’s so unique.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 30 Dec. 2022
• The next two episodes follow his odyssey through the American Southwest.
  — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2023
• Because Russert has come back from his odyssey in a very Washington way: with a book to sell.
  — Kara Voght, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
• Give this surfer odyssey extra points for extra stakes.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2022
• The odyssey began at the former fishing village of Badachro, a 70-mile drive west from the city of Inverness.
  — Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2023
• As many parents know, figuring out a schedule for the eight weeks that school is out is an odyssey.
  — Kathy Pham, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2024
• The odyssey to get to their third album, Blue Rev (out now via Polyvinyl and Transgressive), was rife with setbacks and challenges.
  — Tatiana Tenreyro, SPIN, 7 Oct. 2022
• Here was a new kind of Holocaust movie: the death-camp drama as existential one-man odyssey.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• At his funeral, Robinson Wade spoke directly to her son about the end of her months-long odyssey.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
• Despite Hall’s odyssey, his up-and-down 2023 campaign has led him to a spot in Baltimore’s pitching staff.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 26 Aug. 2023
• For Zendaya on Euphoria, that episode was too easy to spot: Rue's withdrawal haze of a small-town odyssey.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2022
• Nanuq, which means polar bear, decided to partake in an icy sea odyssey.
  — Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 18 Apr. 2023
• They‘d better get used to it: For months to come, they’ll be pressed to pass judgment on every twist and turn of the current front-runner’s legal odyssey.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2023
• All that stood between us and the completion of our 25-mile odyssey across Sunset Boulevard was one last crosswalk.
  — Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2023
• The film charts the road odyssey of two young people coming into their own and searching for identity in a perilous world.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 26 July 2022
• His pianism was steeped in jazz tradition yet spoke more deeply of a personal odyssey.
  — Larry Blumenfeld, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2022
• Juice’s successful launch kickstarts its eight-year odyssey to Jupiter.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2023
• Ben Johnson scored 18 points to lead Bellarmine, which is in the final stretch of a four-game, nine-day road odyssey that will end with a game at Kentucky on Tuesday.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2022
• The decade of his odyssey passes like a dream, as episodes of hardship and violence alternate with voluptuous idylls.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• Where is was Taylor taking us on this grand odyssey of uncoolness?
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
• His life was an amazing odyssey, taking him from Cat Island in the Bahamas to America.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 22 May 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024