How to Use Trojan in a Sentence

Trojan

noun
  • That got Trojans’ fans’ hearts racing.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 31 Aug. 2025
  • This is a Trojan horse for the most odious of mythologies.
    — David Robert Grimes, Scientific American, 2023-06-29
  • In one scene, guards allow the Trojan Horse to enter the city fo Troy.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 2024-01-31
  • Each show can kind of Trojan Horse a little bit of what’s going on in the other show.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 2023-11-03
  • Consider Anohni’s new album a Trojan horse of sorts, then.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 2023-07-31
  • The Trojan's only loss came against the No. 2 and No. 13 seeds.
    — Eduardo Morales Jr., The Arizona Republic, 2023-04-17
  • The play is about a love affair between two people in Troy during the Trojan War.
    — Jacob Linden, Country Living, 2023-04-17
  • And don't use that inquiry as kind of a Trojan horse to not then meet your responsibilities on all these other things.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 2023-12-03
  • The new malware campaign seems to have ties to the Trojan virus - Emotet, which has been around since 2014.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 2023-04-05
  • Originally, the designers used a Trojan horse, of sorts.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 2023-12-25
  • The spacecraft, called Lucy, is meant to study the Trojan asteroids, which share an orbit with Jupiter around the sun.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2023-11-07
  • Seven of the eight are Trojan asteroids (which orbit Jupiter), and one is a main belt asteroid.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 2024-01-15
  • The soup also stands up to the bold flavors of the banchan, which arrive in a Trojan armada of pickled delights.
    — Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 2024-01-15
  • To that end, the gay communities are often portrayed as a potential Trojan horse for the West.
    — Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 2023-11-30
  • The words belong to Cassandra, the Trojan prophetess doomed to be disbelieved.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 2024-01-25
  • But declaring defeat against an app that serves as a Chinese Trojan Horse is both defeatist and premature.
    — Michael Sobolik, National Review, 2024-01-23
  • The Trojan Guarantee will be available beginning with next fall's freshmen class.
    — Ryan Anderson, arkansasonline.com, 2023-11-09
  • The right cajoled progressives to open the Trojan horse of anonymous surrender, and, soon enough, baby boxes crawled out of the woodwork.
    — Maria Laurino, The New Republic, 2023-06-29
  • Lucy spacecraft will skirt Earth, coming within just a few hundred miles of us on its journey to the far-off Jupiter Trojan asteroids.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 2022-10-15
  • Far from being a Trojan horse for big government, clean energy exemplifies free enterprise at its best.
    — Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2025
  • More like Sideline Hills, as in that’s where everyone wanted to be on Friday night, watching Trojan football.
    — Chris Hays, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Iliad flow, a reference to the ancient Greek poem about the mythic 10-year Trojan War.
    — Scott Nover, Quartz, 2023-07-11
  • In 2010, the school built a Traveler statue across from the famous Tommy Trojan in the heart of campus.
    — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 2023-08-29
  • The last Czech film to receive a nomination was Ondrej Trojan’s Zelary in 2003.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The Trojan defense allowed Franklin County just a single first down with 53 yards total offense, including a -9 spot in the rushing total.
    — Alex Harrison, The Enquirer, 2023-09-08
  • Pelion is the mythical home of Chiron, the wisest of the centaurs, who lived in a cave in the mountains and educated Achilles, the great hero of the Trojan War, in the healing arts.
    — Charlotte Higgins, Travel + Leisure, 2023-10-09
  • Connerty, a two-time NJCAA All-American, is the first Triton Trojan to achieve that honor.
    — Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2025
  • An award-winning producer, journalist, and story editor, Katcher has developed and led audio projects, including work as a freelance producer at Trojan Horse Media.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The museum’s website also states that the 8,600-pound T-28C Trojan comprised a production run of only 299 examples.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Hawley’s also following a tradition of some of the later films of the series — including Ridley Scott’s own Prometheus — in using the Xenomorph and all the legacy of the franchise as a way to Trojan-horse bigger ideas into the show.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2025

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