How to Use satyr in a Sentence

satyr

noun
  • Like the imprints on the satyr’s hair, the coin’s patina has preserved the shapes of some fibres.
    The Economist, 4 July 2019
  • Like the decking of the satyr’s ship, the wool then rotted away, leaving a cast of its fibres on the coin.
    The Economist, 4 July 2019
  • Five birds and one insect, the Mitchell’s satyr butterfly.
    Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 4 July 2023
  • Both vases sported the same depictions of a satyr pulling the Greek god of wine, Dionysis, in a cart.
    Kelly Crow, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2017
  • Depending on the mythology, a satyr can be a man with a horse’s ears and tail, or a being with a boat’s ears, horns, tail and legs.
    Kris Holt, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • And that the mythological character Orchis, the son of a satyr and a nymph, was turned into a flower after his death.
    Lawrence Osborne, Town & Country, 14 Apr. 2017
  • The satyr has recently emerged from the Getty’s adept conservation labs.
    Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
  • Barker-Barzel carves bold lines to depict birds with feline faces, contented cats with intact fish in their bellies and a satyr, part man and part goat.
    Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2020
  • That applies to only the Mitchell’s satyr Butterfly, found in Alabama.
    John Sharp | Jsharp@al.com, al, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Alabama is hiding what might be the largest population of Mitchell's satyr butterflies in the world.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2019
  • The other exemplary work is a large bronze figure of an elderly drunken satyr sprawled atop a lion pelt and wineskin strewn across a rock.
    Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
  • Made of amethyst, bone, faience, glass, turquoise, and umber, and including phallic amulets, scarabs, a woman, a dancing satyr, and a head of Dionysus, they are thought to be the treasure box of a sorceress.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Fosse, after all, was creating in his own image, whether rendering himself as a satyr, a sot or a snake.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Javier provides dual amusement as the insecure satyr and licentious Mr. D., while Steele brings a palpable warmth to her turn as the loving mom.
    Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Oct. 2019
  • In these six states, only the Mitchell’s satyr Butterfly is currently protected but it is found in Alabama.
    Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 31 July 2023
  • This review has been updated to correct a misidentification of who played the leaping satyr.
    Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Despite his sometimes portentous tones, Moss’s alter egos are gritty or playful: circus clowns, a satyr, a centaur.
    Stephen Burt, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2017
  • Every good hero saga needs a sidekick, and Jorrel Javier fills the bill with hyperkinetic energy as the bumbling-but-loyal buddy Grover, a satyr who … um … talks to squirrels.
    Dominic P. Papatola, Twin Cities, 20 June 2019
  • The painting, completed in the 1960s, is of a long-necked satyr-like woman, with spiral breasts and an aristocratic arm draped elegantly on a ledge, her fingers long and slim, like those of Carrington herself.
    The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • In one particularly evocative small clay sculpture, two figures that may represent a satyr and a nymph are embracing.
    Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
  • From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr.
    Ocean Vuong, The New Yorker, 13 May 2017
  • Unfortunately for the Saint Francis satyr, beavers have mostly disappeared from its native range in North Carolina.
    National Geographic, 14 Mar. 2016
  • Something about the carvings was familiar — there was a drunken Dionysus leaning on a satyr, carved lion heads and depictions of Hercules and Ariadne merrymaking at a party.
    Christine Hauser, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2017
  • Grover is a cautious satyr who embarks on daring mythological journeys alongside Percy and Annabeth.
    Christi Carrasstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2022
  • The alien close-up parade intoxicates: cackling horns, a goatfur satyr nuzzling some gatorface, the impossibly cute little mouseman squeaking out a booze request.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 23 Oct. 2019
  • He is also remembered, among Brits with a taste for evergreen gossip, as perhaps the most erotically adventurous man of his generation, the satyr of the socialists.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021

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