How to Use Demeter in a Sentence

Demeter

noun
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  • With therapy, Demeter has relearned how to think and talk about food.
    — Audrey Richardson and Aurora Sousanis, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2024
  • This post contains spoilers for The Last Voyage of the Demeter.
    — Megan McCluskey, Time, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The cast from Bram Stoker’s novel are transposed to space junkers, who come across the derelict spaceship Demeter.
    — Vulture, 13 Aug. 2023
  • With therapy, Demeter has relearned how to think and talk about food.
    — Audrey Richardson and Aurora Sousanis, Detroit Free Press, 17 Mar. 2024
  • The Last Voyage of the Demeter offers an inside look at all the horrors that play out on the ship throughout its final journey.
    — Megan McCluskey, Time, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The Last Voyage of the Demeter is a threadbare high-concept story given the high-thread-count treatment — a lovely piece of luxury pulp.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Her writing is lucid and her tone is warm; in her telling, certain myths, such as the one about Demeter and Persephone, are powerfully moving.
    — Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Price: From $14 Demeter makes the most unique fragrances, replicating the scents of everything from vanilla cake batter to grass, from fireplaces to paperbacks.
    — Lois Alter Mark, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • Myth: Persephone, daughter of Zeus and Demeter, was gathering flowers when Hades burst from the underworld in his black chariot and abducted her.
    — Jay Katsir, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Or operatic Demeter, plunging the whole world into winter with her sorrow.
    — Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 29 July 2023
  • There were deities who represented worldly bounty: Gaia (earth), Demeter (harvest), Plutus (wealth).
    — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 10 June 2023
  • Sometimes these goddess figures are based on specific ancient deities, such as Persephone, Demeter and Hekate, and sometimes they are worshipped more generally as representations of various phases of life.
    — Alyssa Beall, USA TODAY, 13 May 2023
  • Vampire movies are, of course, a dime a dozen (the most recent major studio example being The Last Voyage of the Demeter), but few are as gleefully anarchic as this one.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Apr. 2024

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