How to Use ogre in a Sentence

ogre

noun

• The book portrays their father as an ogre who mistreated them.
• Both Klum and Kaulitz rocked the ogre’s protruding ears.
  — Hanna Flanagan, PEOPLE.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• In the fifth episode of the new season: double doctors, right-wing ogres, and Richard II.
  — Rey Mashayekhi, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2019
• Expect plenty of imps, ogres, and trolls and the series rolls on.
  — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 23 May 2018
• The Turpin children have been under the control of an ogre (or two) for a very long time.
  — Maude Julien, Time, 23 Jan. 2018
• The shoes come with the ogre’s classic ear buttons and button for his large nose placed on the clog’s holes in front of the shoe.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2023
• To rescue their beloveds from a castle, two knights must fight a child-eating ogre to the death.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
• The team that hasn’t finished in the top half of its division since 2013 is suddenly the ogre of the NFC West.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2019
• Just like that, thanks to the power of a box-office-topping big green ogre, Frou Frou was back.
  — Rachel Brodsky, Vulture, 19 May 2021
• There, Rand makes a new friend, an ogre — sorry, Ogier — named Loial.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2021
• The carved faces of hideous ogres guarded every doorway.
  — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian, 21 Nov. 2019
• Greci doesn’t take the easy route of casting Mr. Dodge as an ogre, and this is critical.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Nov. 2021
• Why not? — Potter is the miserly ogre with a stranglehold on the town of Bedford Falls.
  — John Hirschauer, National Review, 25 Dec. 2019
• Folks call Trump an ogre, monster, creature from the lagoon, etc.
  — Courant Community, 10 July 2018
• Along the way there are ogres, warrior tournaments and plenty of naked flesh.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2023
• Every night at sunset, she is cursed to turn into an ogre.
  — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 19 Oct. 2021
• Take the reclusive ogre-faced spider, with its large fangs and bulging, oversized middle eyes.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 19 Oct. 2017
• In the movie, a group of fun-loving trolls who spend their days singing and dancing gets kidnapped by a race of giant and very grumpy ogres called Bergens.
  — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 14 Nov. 2023
• The concept of going from a self-loathing ogre to a self-accepting ogre was meaningful to me.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 22 May 2022
• Pay homage to the infamous green ogre with this costume that slides onto your dog’s front legs with a headpiece to match.
  — Ali Faccenda, Peoplemag, 5 Oct. 2023
• What kid hasn't daydreamed about a transformation of their ho-hum life, pining to see an ogre in the halls or a ghost in the bathroom?
  — A.a. Dowd, The Week, 20 Apr. 2022
• Auditions to play Shrek, the big green ogre, the lovely Princess Fiona, and other characters were held in March.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2021
• Clarkson pressed him for more details, wanting to know if the pair sparked any romance in their ogre outfits.
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 22 Nov. 2023
• There are fairies and nymphs, unicorns, harpies, giants, ogres, trolls, Gollums and dragons.
  — Patti Restivo, baltimoresun.com, 14 June 2019
• The ogre-faced or net-casting spiders hold their webs in their front legs and drop them onto passing insects.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 31 May 2017
• These are huge pieces that help tell the story of an ogre finding love all while saving the day for himself, Fiona, and a group of fairytale creatures.
  — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 22 July 2019
• Dull spades, floppy pruners and beat up hoes can turn even the most even-tempered gardener into an ogre.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 9 Mar. 2018
• Tainted victories go in, sanitised fables come out; sons and daughters of the soil go in, evil ogres come out.
  — Harish Pullanoor, Quartz India, 30 Dec. 2019
• The franchise kicked off with the 2001 film that introduced viewers to Shrek, an ogre embarking on a quest to rescue Princess Fiona (Diaz).
  — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 9 July 2024
• Based on Russian folklore, the story is about a villainous ogre who is confronted by a beautiful, magical bird with flame-like feathers.
  — Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024