How to Use phoenix in a Sentence

phoenix

noun

• The past is ablaze, the sky is full of smoke, but the phoenix takes wing.
  — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 13 Apr. 2013
• Best of all is the phoenix, its wings tipped with flames.
  — David Phelan, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• Get up and put the free kick in the back of the damn net that's what #this is phoenix and.
  — SI.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• It was named for the mythic bird—the phoenix—that rose from the ashes.
  — Eric J. Lyman, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2019
• The show is a chance to start new, for a phoenix to be born once again from the ashes.
  — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 July 2022
• The head of the phoenix is planned to swivel a little and the wings might flap slightly.
  — Anthony Clark Carpio, latimes.com, 25 June 2019
• From the ashes, we have been trained to expect a phoenix.
  — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2021
• Things that burn can be built again, that the phoenix rises from the ashes.
  — Liz Appel, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2024
• But the explosion was weirdly in the shape of a phoenix (ha, get it?).
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, refinery29.com, 10 June 2019
• Just like the phoenix, Jack Black says Tenacious D will rise again.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 7 Aug. 2024
• There is talk in the town of a new club, a phoenix team, arising once old Bury’s last rites are read.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2019
• Rising like a phoenix from the ashes…or like a mermaid from the sea?
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 25 July 2023
• Kevin Hart's Die Hart series rose from the ashes of Quibi like a phoenix.
  — Simon Thompson, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• Soccer must have seemed like the phoenix to rise from the Chargers’ ashes.
  — Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 June 2017
• His tickets did not rise, phoenix-like, from the ashes.
  — Steve Rushin, SI.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• In Persian mythology, the simorgh is akin to a phoenix.
  — Vanessa Hua, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Jan. 2018
• Is that a gigantic bird with fire wings — maybe a phoenix?
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 18 Aug. 2021
• The other main point is the close bond Dumbledore has with the phoenix.
  — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 9 May 2016
• Eighty Seven for a group show of 10 phoenix artists from across all mediums.
  — Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic, 2 Mar. 2022
• But Affleck, the proud owner of an ass-to-neck phoenix tattoo, is blond now.
  — Neha Prakash, Marie Claire, 28 Feb. 2020
• The rebuilding of great cities was itself a source of awe: the phoenix rising again and again from the ashes.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• Like a phoenix arising from the ashes, Desus Nice and the Kid Mero are back from vacation.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2021
• The holder depicts a gold phoenix flying over a nest of laurels and leaves.
  — Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 21 Dec. 2017
• Kendall, on the other hand, rose like a literal phoenix from the ashes.
  — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 7 May 2019
• But like a phoenix from the heart of Jupiter, another red storm of rage could burst to the surface of the giant planet.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2018
• Hence the name phoenix, implying a rebirth or rebound from the brink.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Apr. 2021
• Yesterday, the school changed its mascot from a dragon to a phoenix.
  — Intisar Seraaj and David Williams, CNN, 19 Oct. 2017
• Full of pity, one phoenix flew north to help, and soon flowers bloomed, crops thrived, and a city came into being.
  — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2013
• Make no mistake: This phoenix is emerging from the fire stronger than ever.
  — Sami Knight, Teen Vogue, 4 Oct. 2017
• The lime emoji in Unicode 15.1 was actually a lemon emoji combined with the color green; the phoenix was a regular bird joined to the fire emoji.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024