How to Use centaur in a Sentence

centaur

noun
  • Markece tattooed a centaur with a bow and arrow on his client's neck.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 2 Feb. 2022
  • One is that there’s this centaur — half-horse, half-me — painting in my apartment.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2025
  • As a centaur grabs a woman by the neck, a Lapith man dives at its feet.
    — Dominic Green, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
  • On one of these cups, Cupid tugs the male centaur’s hair to annoy him.
    — Melik Kaylan, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2018
  • So someone who is a reverse centaur isn’t just used by a machine; they are used up by the machine.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026
  • This star pattern represents a centaur, who is half man, half horse wielding a bow and arrow.
    — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 13 July 2024
  • And a reverse centaur is someone who is conscripted to help the machine.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026
  • Mermaids, centaurs, satyrs, and sphinxes.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Like, why do these things push these companies to make the products that turn us into these reverse centaurs?
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026
  • Judi Dench fighting a centaur on the moon, and a goose doing Pilates.
    — John Oliver Marries A Cabbage, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Hercules is also thought to be featured, fighting a centaur, and so is Cupid.
    — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Then, your sign ruler the Sun creates an alliance with Chiron the centaur.
    — Jennifer Culp, Them, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Pilots, in other words, are already skilled, safe, and effective centaurs.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Sep. 2021
  • In the rankings of unusual critters, the Slingshot is up there with the sphinx, centaur, and chimera.
    — Alex Davies, WIRED, 4 July 2018
  • One of the latter is a giant man-eating, glitter-pissing cat-centaur crossbreed, but don’t even ask.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Wild horses couldn't drag Adam Driver fans away from his shirtless centaur fragrance ad.
    — Brett McKeehan, CNN, 7 Aug. 2021
  • It's also represented by an archer, but this archer is a mythical centaur, a creature that is half-man, half-horse.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 2 Feb. 2022
  • This might seem like a fantastic mutation–something like a human and a horse being joined into a centaur.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2012
  • Its stars have faded, with a single exception whose centaur masculinity proves the rule.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 15 Apr. 2022
  • In another hall, art students sketched a sculpture of a centaur from the Parthenon Marbles.
    — Alex Marshall, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • And so part of the thesis of this book is that these tools are created for the express purpose of creating these reverse centaurs, right?
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026
  • Called a sea robin, the fish reminded Kingsley of a centaur, the mythical creature that’s half-horse, half-man.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Sagittarius is supposed to outline a centaur shooting an arrow.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Like a centaur itself, Centaurworld is a hybrid of moods, styles, and genres.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 30 July 2021
  • The white equine with a red cape originated as a centaur who was transformed into a full horse and given enhanced abilities through witchy ways.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 26 June 2026
  • The mosaic may also depict the Greek hero Hercules fighting with a centaur.
    — National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The person who was in the centaur [costume] behind [John Milhiser] kind of got dragged behind him.
    — Jenna Marotta, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2017
  • In Greek mythology, Chiron was a centaur and the son of Titan.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Chiron the centaur, ruler of injury and healing, turns retrograde in late July.
    — Jennifer Culp, Them, 15 July 2024
  • In Greek mythology, centaurs had a nasty reputation.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 17 Aug. 2025

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