How to Use odyssey in a Sentence

odyssey

noun

• The story is about the emotional odyssey experienced by a teenage girl.
• Once free of the camp, the greatest threats of their odyssey were hunger and men.
  — Ronald C. Rosbottom, WSJ, 5 May 2021
• This book is about his odyssey to walk the entire length of the chasm with a friend.
  — Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 1 Nov. 2024
• To reach the location on the edge of town is an odyssey.
  — Jennifer Weil, WWD, 20 Sep. 2024
• But the bus broke down, turning the trip into a two-day odyssey.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 8 June 2022
• The odyssey takes him from New Orleans to stops in Georgia.
  — Yvette Benavides, ExpressNews.com, 1 Dec. 2020
• Promising that Sanna’s odyssey, on and off the ice, is far from over.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 16 Mar. 2024
• For now, most of them are simply waiting to take the next step in their odyssey.
  — New York Times, 25 Sep. 2021
• There are a few takeaways from my covid odyssey in the Persian Gulf.
  — Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2022
• In the shadow of two buttes, Alex Cobb’s four-month odyssey came full circle.
  — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 17 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
• The move to pass zoning reform has been a yearslong odyssey with the twists and turns of a screenplay.
  — New York Times, 26 Aug. 2021
• The three-hour odyssey, defined by great stillness, is one of the most audacious films of the year.
  — Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 11 July 2024
• Right now, this odyssey can’t be outsourced to the AI assistants on the market.
  — Kathy Pham, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2024
• For Johnson, the journey to his dream job was more of an odyssey on a fast-food budget.
  — Marcus Fuller, Star Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021
• Originally, there was more in the script of Bill’s odyssey.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2025
• Despite the mid-season odyssey and loss to the Packers, the Raiders are still very much in the race for a wild card playoff spot.
  — oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2019
• The tortoise was tired, hungry and caked in mud, but seems to be in good health after his odyssey.
  — David Williams, CNN, 22 Aug. 2020
• But the odyssey continues, even though, at 94, Holbrook no longer puts on the white suit to play Twain.
  — Mark Dawidziak, cleveland, 2 Nov. 2019
• The Giants finished second and were sent off on a road wild-card odyssey.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• It was screened for buyers last March, a key milestone after a two-decade odyssey to get it to the screen.
  — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2024
• Charlene's return is the latest step in a ten-month long odyssey.
  — Peter Mikelbank, PEOPLE.com, 12 Mar. 2022
• Davis’s odyssey comes, as these things tend to, with an origin story.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Mar. 2022
• And a big part of its viral appeal is the odyssey required to procure it.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 6 Feb. 2020
• 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
• The book becomes a kind of odyssey, with Sergeyich, driving his trusty old Lada, in the role of a Ukrainian Odysseus.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 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
• Splashdown occurred off the coast of the Florida Panhandle, bringing their unplanned odyssey to an end.
  — Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2025
• Splashdown occurred off the coast of Tallahassee in the Florida Panhandle, bringing their unplanned odyssey to an end.
  — Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025