How to Use Trojan in a Sentence

Trojan

noun
Definition of Trojannext
  • The Trojan's only loss came against the No. 2 and No. 13 seeds.
    — Eduardo Morales Jr., The Arizona Republic, 17 Apr. 2023
  • In one scene, guards allow the Trojan Horse to enter the city fo Troy.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
  • This is a Trojan horse for the most odious of mythologies.
    — David Robert Grimes, Scientific American, 29 June 2023
  • The new malware campaign seems to have ties to the Trojan virus - Emotet, which has been around since 2014.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Each show can kind of Trojan Horse a little bit of what’s going on in the other show.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The spacecraft, called Lucy, is meant to study the Trojan asteroids, which share an orbit with Jupiter around the sun.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The play is about a love affair between two people in Troy during the Trojan War.
    — Jacob Linden, Country Living, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Some believed that Fridman and Khan planned the project as a Trojan horse to somehow push a pro-Putin agenda.
    — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
  • In 2010, the school built a Traveler statue across from the famous Tommy Trojan in the heart of campus.
    — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The freshman phenom is the first Trojan since Adoree’ Jackson in 2016 to score punt, kick and receive touchdowns in the same season.
    — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2023
  • But there was always something comedic about it, because that’s the best way to Trojan Horse a real idea into the world.
    — Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 28 July 2023
  • Consider Anohni’s new album a Trojan horse of sorts, then.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 31 July 2023
  • The soup also stands up to the bold flavors of the banchan, which arrive in a Trojan armada of pickled delights.
    — Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The uses Apple and Disney have presented so far are a bit of a Trojan horse, experts said.
    — Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2023
  • Seven of the eight are Trojan asteroids (which orbit Jupiter), and one is a main belt asteroid.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2024
  • To that end, the gay communities are often portrayed as a potential Trojan horse for the West.
    — Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The words belong to Cassandra, the Trojan prophetess doomed to be disbelieved.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Following the Trojan War, the Greeks took a 10-year trip home that resulted in only one ship finishing the journey.
    — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Pelion is the mythical home of Chiron, the wisest of the centaurs, who lived in a cave in the mountains and educated Achilles, the great hero of the Trojan War, in the healing arts.
    — Charlotte Higgins, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The right cajoled progressives to open the Trojan horse of anonymous surrender, and, soon enough, baby boxes crawled out of the woodwork.
    — Maria Laurino, The New Republic, 29 June 2023
  • And don't use that inquiry as kind of a Trojan horse to not then meet your responsibilities on all these other things.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Lucy spacecraft will skirt Earth, coming within just a few hundred miles of us on its journey to the far-off Jupiter Trojan asteroids.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 15 Oct. 2022
  • Iliad flow, a reference to the ancient Greek poem about the mythic 10-year Trojan War.
    — Scott Nover, Quartz, 11 July 2023
  • But declaring defeat against an app that serves as a Chinese Trojan Horse is both defeatist and premature.
    — Michael Sobolik, National Review, 23 Jan. 2024
  • So there is a historical foundation for the Trojan War?
    — Nick Hilden, CNN, 10 May 2023
  • The epic poem tells the story of the Trojan prince Aeneas, a mythological character who first appears in the Iliad, and the founding of Rome.
    — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2023
  • Originally, the designers used a Trojan horse, of sorts.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Swift is an expert at Trojan horse songs: Lyrics that cut hidden beneath an innocuous, upbeat melody.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2024
  • The Trojan defense allowed Franklin County just a single first down with 53 yards total offense, including a -9 spot in the rushing total.
    — Alex Harrison, The Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Several of them are decorated with couples who are associated with the Trojan War.
    — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'Trojan.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: