How to Use golem in a Sentence

golem

noun
  • When the dust cleared, the golem lay in pieces across the dungeon floor.
    — L.j. Kilgore, Ars Technica, 28 June 2020
  • Charlie, as Nan calls the golem, is made of soot, but he might as well be made of pure love.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2018
  • So in my story the golem is female, made by women, made by a mother and a teenage girl.
    — Denise Davidson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2019
  • In this way, by erasing and rewriting that letter, the rabbi could start and stop the golem.
    — Deborah Treisma, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The twist Elsie doesn’t know is, Bernard and his gluey golems trashed the place themselves a while ago.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 13 May 2018
  • The result is a spooky visage of some sort of golem staring out of the planet's surface.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2023
  • So denied, the golem went berserk, tearing down houses, throwing rocks, and wreaking havoc in the street.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 11 July 2023
  • Otherwise there will be more golems released into the world that will reflect back to us, in language, the worst parts of ourselves.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2023
  • John’s is a golem, animated by just a few very important words that it’s carried into the future, step by step.
    — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The golem was molded out of clay by an elderly rabbi, who brought his creation to life with a magic spell written on a piece of parchment.
    — Deborah Treisma, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
  • His appearance, a gigantic stone golem with catapults built into his shoulders, makes that very clear.
    — Earnest Cavalli, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2009
  • The Flamelurker, an imposing golem of fire, looks like a Diablo monster.
    — Julie Muncy, Wired, 24 Nov. 2020
  • One day, golems would turn on Their creators, learn how to build more of their own kind, and use their overwhelming numbers to cleanse the Earth of evil.
    — David Canfield, EW.com, 23 Sep. 2019
  • The Patron exists as a flying golem at first, then once it's taken enough damage, becomes a stationary orb.
    — Omar L. Gallaga, WIRED, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Likely, many will glean in Yente’s story certain echoes of the story of the golem, that old Jewish legend from Prague.
    — Deborah Treisma, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The golem also served as an inspiration for Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The big basket-o-fire golems seen in the last gameplay trailer are on the move, and Mesmer, the seeming big bad of this DLC, is triumphant.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 21 May 2024
  • But their mission — to take down Cara Delevingne’s undersketched witch, Enchantress, and her giant golem-like brother — is a bit of a bust.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Although the original fable sees the golem run amok, the idea of the creature endures as an empowering fantasy in a time of rising anti-Semitism.
    — Katherine Alejandra Cross, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
  • There’s a golem brought to life in the midst of it, and the underlying theme of togetherness is weaved throughout as the townspeople learn to celebrate Hanukkah together.
    — Jessica Tzikas, Sun Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The silent years were stalked by German versions of golems and vampires, while an American makeup wizard named Lon Chaney gave fright a face — or rather, a gallery of faces.
    — A.a. Dowd, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • In Jewish folklore, a golem is a creature fashioned of clay and brought to life by magic, its Hebrew name suggesting something incomplete or unfinished.
    — Kathleen Rooney, Star Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020
  • This brings to mind the golem of Jewish folklore, a powerful but simple giant made of mud and clay, brought to life in dangerous times to protect European Jews.
    — Daniel Lee, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2017
  • In Jewish folklore, golems are anthropomorphic figures animated by magic, often depicted as large troll-like creatures made from clay or mud.
    — Ferris Jabr, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
  • This entire damage mitigation thing kicked off when PCF patched out a bug that allowed a permanent golem protection shield, reducing damage for an entire run.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • The latter is set in 16th-century Prague, where a rabbi creates a golem — a giant clay creature brought to life in order to protect the city’s Jewish community.
    — Elise Morton, Sun Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2023
  • But given the hitman’s status as a death-dealing golem the Mob occasionally unleashes on its enemies, De Niro’s creaky movement mostly works.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2019
  • For a playground in Jerusalem in 1971, Saint Phalle designed a black-and-white golem, its rippling walls indebted to Gaudí, with three slides formed from its three giant tongues.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Mary, living in the world of Galvanism, industrial and democratic revolution, and the newfound delight in rationalism, was able to give us a golem without resorting to the supernatural.
    — Cory Doctorow, Slate Magazine, 22 May 2017
  • He’s been replaced by a golem (the inimitable Boris Karloff) with a singular, instantly recognizable redesign, brought to life in a hilltop castle by an intensely cinematic asset – lightning.
    — Rory Doherty, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025

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