How to Use Heracles in a Sentence

Heracles

noun
  • According to the myth, when Hera was nursing Heracles (Hercules), the infant spilled some of the milk and streaked it across the sky.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 2023-06-05
  • His weapon of choice to take out SPECTRE is Heracles.
    — Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Bond fights through Safin's remaining forces and convinces M to authorize a missile strike on the island to prevent the spread of Heracles.
    — Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The most famous of these, perhaps, is the Greek myth in which Hera pushes away the baby Heracles from her bosom, and her breast milk spills from horizon to horizon.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 2023-08-04
  • The goddess Hera — who despised Heracles — later set the crab in the heavens in the form of the constellation Cancer as a reward for its bravery.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 9 May 2026
  • According to myth, the city was the birthplace of the god Heracles—Hercules to the Romans—who fought battles alongside a kinsman named Iolaus.
    — James Romm, WSJ, 2021-07-29
  • What neither Bond nor Blofeld know, though, is that Safin has already intercepted Madeline, infecting her with a Heracles variant that is harmless to her but fatal to Blofeld.
    — Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Heracles discovered the Hydra's den in the Lernaean Swamps with the aid of the goddess Athena and was able to break or sever its many necks — while using fire to prevent them from growing back — until only a single immortal head remained.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 9 May 2026
  • With the help of Obruchev, Safin plans to mass-produce Heracles on an island called the Poison Garden, which was once owned by his family but commandeered by SPECTRE after their murder.
    — Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Consider that the founding years for de la Torre’s previous employers, Fulham, Dutch club Heracles Almelo and Spain’s Celta Liga are 1879, 1903 and 1923.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2025

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