How to Use Minotaur in a Sentence

Minotaur

noun
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  • What if the Minotaur were not the monster but the victim?
    — Vivian Lam, WIRED, 24 Feb. 2023
  • On the left is the Minotaur Room, its cavernous mouth the focal point.
    — Max Olesker, Longreads, 13 July 2023
  • Now he’s entered the labyrinth but has yet to slay the Minotaur within.
    — Scott Nover, Quartz, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The Greek myths alone — the Minotaur, who was the child of an unholy union between a woman and a bull.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
  • The Minotaur is 6-4-2 with the season coming down the stretch, hoping to land a 3A playoff berth.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Electron did to the Minotaur market what the Falcon 9 did to the Atlas V market.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The story also has ties to Greek mythology with Theseus and the Minotaur.
    — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Once upon a time, the legend goes, Theseus slew the Minotaur and sailed triumphantly home to Athens on a wooden ship.
    — Amy X. Wang Grant Cornett, New York Times, 4 May 2023
  • There are so many stories from Greek mythology that have become ubiquitous, like Medusa, or the Minotaur – and there are stories that are a little bit lesser known.
    — Diya Chacko, Orange County Register, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Advertisement Greek mythology tells us about the labyrinth, an elaborate structure built by the legendary Daedalus to hold a mythical half man and half bull creature known as the Minotaur.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2024
  • The new American Minotaur’s appetite kept the gleaming German factories busy.
    — Yanis Varoufakis, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2024
  • The eponymous labyrinth of ancient Greek mythology—the one with the ferocious Minotaur in its depths—is, in descriptions by classical authors, pretty obviously a maze.
    — Hazlitt, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Her three battles with the Minotaur are an allegory of creative flexibility (expressed in Graham’s trademark technique of contraction and release) versus rigidity.
    — Christopher Benfey, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023

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