How to Use Babylon in a Sentence

Babylon

noun
  • But over the next few years, the hype around Babylon just kept growing.
    — WIRED, 2023-09-19
  • The Babylon star looked a vision in pink — and polka dots!
    — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 2023-06-28
  • Call it the reverse Babylon — silent pictures are back!
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 2023-05-12
  • Click here to learn more about Musk's connections with the Babylon Bee.
    — Kassy Dillon, Fox News, 2023-04-07
  • Some of them will venture further into the Slabs, but most of them will turn around and head back to Babylon.
    — Jonah Gercke, SPIN, 2024-03-15
  • Zedekiah was forced to watch his sons killed and was then blinded, bound, and taken to Babylon as a prisoner.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2023-12-31
  • The people who migrated to Babylon attempted to build a tower that would reach to the sky.
    — Joan Taylor, The Christian Science Monitor, 2024-03-28
  • Careful records of lunar and solar eclipses are one of the greatest legacies of ancient Babylon.
    — Rebecca Boyle, TIME, 2024-04-08
  • This was at a soft opening of the Babylon LA store in Hollywood.
    — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 2024-03-20
  • Reports of apple cider vinegar use date back thousands of years to ancient Egypt and Babylon.
    — Elizabeth Barnes, Verywell Health, 2025-02-24
  • 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, 2024-06-26
  • Damien Chazelle, who last directed Babylon and has a first-look deal with Paramount, is due to helm the feature.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 2025-03-06
  • Margot Robbie believes there's still time for Babylon to get its flowers… hopefully in the next two decades.
    — Shania Russell, EW.com, 2024-11-27
  • Previous editions have shone a light on series that went on to become huge hits, including Babylon Berlin.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 2025-01-17
  • Pierced ears, jewelry, and makeup—all those garish trappings of Babylon—were forbidden.
    — Safiya Sinclair, The New Yorker, 2023-07-31
  • Musk also boosted a deepfake ad made by Babylon Bee targeting Newsom.
    — Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 2024-09-19
  • Christopher, 64, is a contractor from West Babylon, New York.
    — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 2024-10-03
  • Rogers' other roles included the TV series Fast Track and Babylon 5.
    — Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Back in ancient Babylon, Jewish scribes might have re-imagined a popular goddess as a Jewish heroine.
    — Esther Brownsmith, The Conversation, 2024-03-21
  • As far back as ancient Babylon, astrologers have interpreted the heavens to discover hidden truths and predict the future.
    — Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn, Smithsonian Magazine, 2025-01-02
  • 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, 2023-05-03
  • Over in Babylon, a woman drunkenly crashed into a boat at the local marina, setting a total of four vessels on fire, according to police.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 2024-11-25
  • 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, 2023-07-30
  • People sometimes even question whether the most mysterious of them all — the Hanging Gardens of Babylon — existed at all.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 2024-11-04
  • After all, Danny Ocean is still Daniel, the guy who made beats in his bedroom, who studied graphic design, who dreamed up a place called Babylon Club without even knowing it.
    — Martín Toro, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2025
  • In March 2022 the Babylon Bee shared the same story on Twitter, resulting in them being suspended from the platform.
    — Matt Robison, Newsweek, 2024-11-21
  • 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, 2023-04-10
  • Planted along with Better Boxwood- Babylon Beauty™, ‘September Charm’, Lenten Rose, ‘Honorine Jobert’, ‘Autumn Bride’, Heuchera, ‘Annabelle’ Hydrangea, ‘Hummingbird’ Summersweet.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Outside of daytime, Rogers starred in Showtime’s stock-car racing drama Fast Track in 1997, and was active as guest actor in a roster of primetime TV series including Mancuso, FBI, Tales From the Crypt, Walker, Texas Ranger, Babylon 5, Family Law, and Raven.
    — Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Outside of daytime, Rogers starred in Showtime’s stock-car racing drama Fast Track in ’97, voiced the kangaroo mouse in 1990’s The Rescuers Down Under and played Home Guard leader Malcolm Biggs in a Season 1 episode of Babylon 5 opposite General Hospital castmate Nancy Lee Grahn.
    — Team Tvline, TVLine, 15 Aug. 2025

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