How to Use Hades in a Sentence

Hades

noun
  • Death was not a final stop but rather part of a process by which the soul went to Hades.
    — Teju Cole, New York Times, 2023-09-12
  • But Quinn's Hades, like Old Scratch, gets some of the best lines.
    — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 2023-05-03
  • Will Hades and Persephone find their way back to each other amidst the shadows?
    — News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2025-03-29
  • The seeds seal Persephone’s fate as one who must spend part of every year with Hades among the dead.
    — Demir Alp, JSTOR Daily, 29 Aug. 2025
  • In a way, Cerberus was not just the guard dog of Hades, but of Earth itself.
    — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 2023-10-31
  • Back in 2020, Forward Air was hacked by a group known as Hades.
    — Levon Gasparian, Forbes, 2024-03-27
  • The magic of Hades lies in playing it in short bursts, which pairs well with its roguelike structure on the Deck.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2024-12-01
  • The wait is over: Hades II launches in early access today.
    — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 2024-05-08
  • Smaller, less power-hungry games like Hades II ran better.
    — Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 2024-08-02
  • And here’s another reason why the Rockies didn’t stand a chance in Hades on Tuesday night.
    — Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 2024-09-03
  • This is Ursula, Hades, Scar—to go no further than the Disney canon.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 2024-10-14
  • Fortnite also hinted at the Chains of Hades being another power added on later in the season.
    — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 2024-03-08
  • The black and white striped sweater from Extreme Cashmere is up for sale, as is the baby blue and orange cardigan from Hades Wool.
    — Aamina Inayat Khan, StyleCaster, 2024-12-10
  • By comparison with the immortal gods, even the loftiest mortals are losers in the long run (as Achilles realizes in Hades).
    — Robert Pogue Harrison, The New York Review of Books, 2024-02-15
  • Harris sourced inspiration from the underworld as Hades, while his husband pulled from the deep blue and dressed as Poseidon, the god of the sea.
    — Lydia Price, Peoplemag, 2023-11-01
  • Olympian legends — including Hades and the thunder god Zeus — now rule the Island in otherworldly rage.
    — Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 2024-03-08
  • Meanwhile, Persephone makes her usual springtime visit, drawing the attention of her lover, Hades, to the scenario in the nightclub.
    — Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 2024-01-10
  • The complex, fraught relationship between Persephone and Hades provides one of the two main storylines in Hadestown.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 2023-07-18
  • In the 1997 film, it's revealed that Meg sold her soul to Hades to save her boyfriend, who eventually left her for another woman.
    — Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • In order to save the world’s harvests, Zeus convinced Hades to allow Persephone to return to her mother for most of the year and return to the underworld in the winter.
    — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 2024-05-09
  • So the current heat wave, which is a reference to sort of Greek mythology to this ferryman who carried the dead across the waters of the Hades, the space that separates the living and the dead.
    — Mark Sovel, USA TODAY, 2023-07-22
  • This action roguelike co-op dungeon crawler channels the likes of Hades and Diablo but swaps out the Greek mythology and demons in favor of Lovecraftian horrors.
    — David Jagneaux, Forbes.com, 2025-04-14
  • More than three years after its initial release, the masochistic psychodrama that is Hades still has the gaming community in a kinky stranglehold — so much so that Netflix is getting in on the action.
    — Vulture, 2023-11-11
  • The $69 combination yields a feast for two, considering the meal gets rounded out with clear and comforting beef-radish soup, corn under a cloak of molten mozzarella and steamed eggs, light as clouds (but hot as Hades, so watch out).
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 2023-08-21
  • Whisker Squadron's Story Anyone who has played Hades knows that indie rogue-lite developers create fantastic premises to justify the endless repetition.
    — PCMAG, 2025-03-16
  • The pair join previously announced Levi Chrisopulos and Olive Abercrombie, who will play the children of Hades, Nico and Bianca di Angelo, respectively.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 21 Aug. 2025
  • In this version, the sensible Eurydice has fallen in love with the idealistic Orpheus but longs for the financial stability guaranteed in the titular underworld — a factory town overseen by Hades and resented by his wife, Persephone.
    — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 2023-07-24
  • The fictional Night Raven College serves as a training ground for aspiring sorcerers, with dormitories themed around villainous icons like the Queen of Hearts, Scar, Ursula, Jafar, the Evil Queen, Hades and Maleficent.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Aug. 2025

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