How to Use ogre in a Sentence

ogre

noun
  • The book portrays their father as an ogre who mistreated them.
  • The queue for the Shrek ride winds through the ogre's cottage and then the swamp.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Both Klum and Kaulitz rocked the ogre’s protruding ears.
    — Hanna Flanagan, PEOPLE.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • In the fifth episode of the new season: double doctors, right-wing ogres, and Richard II.
    — Rey Mashayekhi, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Expect plenty of imps, ogres, and trolls and the series rolls on.
    — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 23 May 2018
  • The Turpin children have been under the control of an ogre (or two) for a very long time.
    — Maude Julien, Time, 23 Jan. 2018
  • The shoes come with the ogre’s classic ear buttons and button for his large nose placed on the clog’s holes in front of the shoe.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2023
  • One is a full size replica of the carriage formed from an onion that Shrek's ogre bride Fiona rides in.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • There’s even a first look at Zendaya’s teen-girl ogre — red hair, bangs, and all — in a new teaser for the movie.
    — Justin Curto, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
  • To rescue their beloveds from a castle, two knights must fight a child-eating ogre to the death.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • So tonight this is for my handsome ogre, my tall drink of swamp water.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The team that hasn’t finished in the top half of its division since 2013 is suddenly the ogre of the NFC West.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Just like that, thanks to the power of a box-office-topping big green ogre, Frou Frou was back.
    — Rachel Brodsky, Vulture, 19 May 2021
  • Just like that, thanks to the power of a box-office-topping big green ogre, Frou Frou was back.
    — Rachel Brodsky, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Now, inflation is the ogre under the bridge and shoppers are not so quick to pull the trigger.
    — Greg Petro, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
  • There, Rand makes a new friend, an ogre — sorry, Ogier — named Loial.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2021
  • The carved faces of hideous ogres guarded every doorway.
    — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian, 21 Nov. 2019
  • And the other thing is ogres have tempers, and so do Scottish people.
    — Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Greci doesn’t take the easy route of casting Mr. Dodge as an ogre, and this is critical.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Nov. 2021
  • Why not? — Potter is the miserly ogre with a stranglehold on the town of Bedford Falls.
    — John Hirschauer, National Review, 25 Dec. 2019
  • Folks call Trump an ogre, monster, creature from the lagoon, etc.
    — Courant Community, 10 July 2018
  • Along the way there are ogres, warrior tournaments and plenty of naked flesh.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2023
  • But that didn’t stop DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg from pitching him the chance to voice a a big green ogre.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Every night at sunset, she is cursed to turn into an ogre.
    — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Take the reclusive ogre-faced spider, with its large fangs and bulging, oversized middle eyes.
    — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 19 Oct. 2017
  • In the movie, a group of fun-loving trolls who spend their days singing and dancing gets kidnapped by a race of giant and very grumpy ogres called Bergens.
    — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The concept of going from a self-loathing ogre to a self-accepting ogre was meaningful to me.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 22 May 2022
  • Pay homage to the infamous green ogre with this costume that slides onto your dog’s front legs with a headpiece to match.
    — Ali Faccenda, Peoplemag, 5 Oct. 2023
  • What kid hasn't daydreamed about a transformation of their ho-hum life, pining to see an ogre in the halls or a ghost in the bathroom?
    — A.a. Dowd, The Week, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Auditions to play Shrek, the big green ogre, the lovely Princess Fiona, and other characters were held in March.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2021

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