How to Use Babylon in a Sentence

Babylon

noun
Definition of Babylonnext
  • But over the next few years, the hype around Babylon just kept growing.
    — WIRED, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The Babylon star looked a vision in pink — and polka dots!
    — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 28 June 2023
  • Click here to learn more about Musk's connections with the Babylon Bee.
    — Kassy Dillon, Fox News, 7 Apr. 2023
  • This was at a soft opening of the Babylon LA store in Hollywood.
    — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Some of them will venture further into the Slabs, but most of them will turn around and head back to Babylon.
    — Jonah Gercke, SPIN, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Call it the reverse Babylon — silent pictures are back!
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 12 May 2023
  • This isn’t another Voodoo Lounge or Bridges to Babylon.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2023
  • While the Babylon actor may be an A-lister, his roots can be traced back to the crossroads of America.
    — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The rivers here, some scholars say, fed the fabled hanging gardens of Babylon and converged at the place described in the Bible as the Garden of Eden.
    — Alissa J. Rubin, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2023
  • The people who migrated to Babylon attempted to build a tower that would reach to the sky.
    — Joan Taylor, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Wilde appeared in 2022’s Babylon, which Robbie starred in.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2024
  • When we’re finally hit with the revelation of who the killer is, it’s supposed to be the Babylon heart of darkness.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 26 June 2024
  • Zedekiah was forced to watch his sons killed and was then blinded, bound, and taken to Babylon as a prisoner.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 31 Dec. 2023
  • Careful records of lunar and solar eclipses are one of the greatest legacies of ancient Babylon.
    — Rebecca Boyle, TIME, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The Babylon star’s bright red manicure added a pop of color to the monochrome look, along with her silky blonde tresses — styled in loose waves — and glossy reddish pink lip!
    — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 14 June 2023
  • This year, attacks have been reported off Fire Island, Quogue, and Babylon.
    — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 2023
  • But in a joint statement, Babylon Berlin‘s producers reassured the show’s fans.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 June 2023
  • The Babylon cast member eventually moved to Hollywood, but the rest of his family stayed in the Midwest.
    — Skyler Trepel, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2024
  • But nine months ago, the creator of the award-winning space drama teased a second secret Babylon 5 project — one that would feature every surviving member of the main cast.
    — Sean Hollister, The Verge, 3 May 2023
  • But with Babylon Berlin coming to an end — a fifth season of the series, which hopes to begin production this year, is expected to be the last — X Filme is looking to return to its roots.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2024
  • Back in ancient Babylon, Jewish scribes might have re-imagined a popular goddess as a Jewish heroine.
    — Esther Brownsmith, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2024
  • De Ramon supported Pitt at the premiere of Babylon and the afterparty in December 2022.
    — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Musk also boosted a deepfake ad made by Babylon Bee targeting Newsom.
    — Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Though the theorem is named for the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras, some historians believe it was known in Babylon around 1,000 years earlier.
    — Leila Sloman, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Straczynski has continued expanding the story of Babylon 5, a five-mile long space station seen as neutral ground for various alien species to interact amid the backdrop of the threat of war.
    — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2023
  • Pierced ears, jewelry, and makeup—all those garish trappings of Babylon—were forbidden.
    — Safiya Sinclair, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • Then, over a martial riddim, comes not a standard chant-down of Babylon, but a testimonial about battling inner darkness.
    — Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Worse, one of Hoxton’s star investments, Babylon Health, imploded in August 2023, two years after going public.
    — Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The scholarship is funded, in part, by the Babylon family in honor of Eaton’s extensive contributions to our community.
    — Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 27 Apr. 2024
  • Kenneth Anger, one of America's first openly gay filmmakers and the author of the controversial celebrity gossip touchstone Hollywood Babylon, has died.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 24 May 2023

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