How to Use Odysseus in a Sentence

Odysseus

noun
  • The Odysseus lander is a little wider than a hot-dog stand.
    — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 2024-03-04
  • It is believed to have been where Homer imagined Odysseus would land with his crew.
    — Jack Dunn, Variety, 2025-02-17
  • Within a week of landing near the south pole, Odysseus was on the verge of powering down for good.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 2024-05-03
  • In the film, Goodheart evokes the story of Odysseus and the sirens to describe the allure.
    — Steve Dollar, Los Angeles Times, 2023-11-30
  • The 62-year-old revealed how he got ripped for his latest role portraying Odysseus.
    — Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 2025-04-27
  • There’s a man called the Odysseus of Honey who travels around by boats getting fresh honey from the bees.
    — Mark Ellwood, Fortune Europe, 2024-04-06
  • For 10 long years Odysseus and his crew struggled to get back to the Greek island of Ithaca.
    — Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, MSNBC Newsweek, 2025-05-26
  • Bernthal appears to be playing a soldier of some sort, perhaps an old companion of Odysseus.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 2025-07-02
  • Now few and literally far between on this golden island are the homes that still occupy the very edge of the sea once sailed by Odysseus.
    — Nielsen Dinwoodie, Forbes, 2024-10-03
  • As Odysseus makes his way back, he’s forced to contend with interruptions from the gods and other mythical creatures.
    — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 2025-02-17
  • One location, which Newman believed to be Odysseus’ home in the film, is a two kilometer hike on an incline to even reach.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 2025-05-08
  • Small Ithaka, known to Homer fans as the home of Odysseus, is still relatively undiscovered.
    — Eleni N. Gage, Travel + Leisure, 2024-04-01
  • This is a truly spectacular take on the Odysseus, and a rather rare sight given its limited availability.
    — Blake Buettner, Robb Report, 2024-10-15
  • That’s no way to treat a host; a decade of war and then a decade of Odysseus’s wanderings begin with that one break of the reciprocal stranger/host relationship.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 2024-11-22
  • Earlier this week, the company posted images from Odysseus’ journey to the moon showing Earth in the background.
    — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 2024-02-22
  • The trailer opens with shots of the sea and a voiceover about Odysseus' victory in the Trojan War — beginning with Leguizamo's voice.
    — Jen Juneau, People.com, 2025-07-04
  • Enlarge / Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander is shown shortly before touching down on the Moon.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 2024-04-04
  • On Sunday, the Odysseus 6K went on its fourth dive since arriving at the recovery site, company officials said in a statement.
    — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 2023-06-26
  • The spacecraft, named Odysseus, touched down near the south lunar pole, a region rich in deposits of water ice, which could be used by future crews for breathable oxygen, rocket fuel, and drinking water.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 2024-08-18
  • As told and retold over many centuries, the story sees Odysseus embark on a perilous ten-year journey in an effort to return home to his beloved wife, Penelope, and son Telemachus.
    — Shania Russell, EW.com, 2025-02-17
  • According to reports, the 70-second trailer opens with shots of the sea and a narration about Odysseus' victory in the Trojan War.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 2025-07-16
  • To date, just one private spacecraft has ever landed safely on the moon — Intuitive Machines' Odysseus, which pulled off the feat this past February.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 2024-12-19
  • No single heat wave from human history has been assigned the narrative resonance of the Vesuvius eruption, or the mythic power of the storms that imperiled Odysseus.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 2025-06-24
  • Meanwhile, in Ithaca, his wife, Penelope, and son, Telemachus, struggle to preserve the kingdom, warding off relentless suitors who are convinced that Odysseus has died.
    — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 2024-12-26
  • But humans have been using myth and legend as motivation for centuries, and Buffy’s challenges are just a modern variation of the trials faced by Odysseus, Beowulf and other warriors.
    — J. D. Biersdorfer, New York Times, 2025-04-08
  • The Return follows Odysseus (Fiennes) who washes up on the shores of Ithaca after 20 years away, haggard and unrecognizable.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 2024-11-01
  • In writing that national epic, and making his Irish Odysseus half-Jewish, Joyce anticipates and rebukes the expectations of people like the citizen.
    — Benjamin Hale june 23, Literary Hub, 2025-06-23
  • Intuitive Machines' lander Odysseus became the first nongovernmental spacecraft to set down on the Moon in February 2024.
    — Ryan Deto, Axios, 2025-02-05
  • Over the weekend, the U.S. private spacecraft Odysseus, which launched to the moon on February 15, was declared to be permanently dormant after failing to radio from the lunar south pole.
    — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 2024-03-27
  • The lander’s developer, Intuitive Machines, has been trying to reestablish communication with Odysseus in the hopes that a solar charge would restore its capabilities.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 2024-03-26

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