How to Use mythological in a Sentence

mythological

adjective
  • Yes, Medusa was a mythological monster whose hair was a nest of snakes.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2022
  • On what draws him to these mythological creatures, his answer is, well, kind of adorable.
    — Jake Woolf, GQ, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Is there one mythological figure that keeps coming back for you?
    — Alma Rota, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2026
  • All very clean and mythological.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 24 June 2026
  • The park rangers are even cast as heroes, in on the secret of mythological creatures in the world.
    — Cassie Fambro, charlotteobserver, 13 Oct. 2017
  • There’s even a mythological quality to the way teeth link to his story.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Some say Chaoyang gets its name from an old poem about a mythological bird singing to the rising sun.
    — Stefen Chow, Smithsonian, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The movie builds toward an ending that is equal parts mythological and abstract.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The mythological creature mourns her kids, who, in some variations, take their own lives.
    — Sarah Quiñones Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
  • There isn’t one mythological figure that stays with me more than another.
    — Alma Rota, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2026
  • Your grandmother stood in the kitchen, looking mythological, hands crossed on her apron.
    — Anne Carson, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
  • In any event, the title primes us for a tale of mythological resonance, and rightly so.
    — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024
  • All these mythological people, the president and the first lady, are in front of you.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The name Klotho refers to the Greek mythological story of the three Fates.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
  • January was named for Janus, a mythological king of Rome who was two-faced.
    — Dorothy Dworkin, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Just as the mythological Proteus can take on many forms, so too can gamers try new identities, faces and lives.
    — Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2021
  • The church has some reliefs of the mythological figure the Green Man.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2022
  • This statue, a mythological mashup of all the livestock found at the fair, is tucked away in the agricultural area.
    — Gabi De La Rosa, Chron, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Thanks to some cutting-edge tech help, the actor's eyes (both of them) were even used for the mythological monster's giant peeper.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Students learned and lived in many of the existing buildings, which were in the shape of the mythological thunderbird.
    — Jen Fifield, azcentral, 16 June 2019
  • But the video takes a different approach to the song's title, focus on the mythological creaturs of the woods who share the same name.
    — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 4 Dec. 2019
  • One mythological concept the Aztecs had about an eclipse was that the sun disappeared because a jaguar was going to eat it.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Her thoughts often drift to the mythological site and Arthurian legend that give the novel its title.
    — Jake Cline, Washington Post, 27 May 2022
  • In a way, everything about the movie has an extreme mythological quality.
    — Mike Miller, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Dec. 2025
  • The definition is both fixed and fluid, and now with two Black queens, even more tiers are being added to the mythological cake.
    — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
  • Spiky, with thick leathery skin, dragon fruit takes its name from the fire-breathing mythological creatures that populate age-old lore.
    — Randi Gollin, Martha Stewart, 21 June 2026
  • Yet now Nina Gold, the casting director for show, seems to agree with his view of this mythological world.
    — Ella Ceron, Teen Vogue, 12 July 2017
  • And that the mythological character Orchis, the son of a satyr and a nymph, was turned into a flower after his death.
    — Lawrence Osborne, Town & Country, 14 Apr. 2017
  • But less mythological will be his choices and their impact on a world on edge—to say nothing of the future of democracy in Asia.
    — Jon Huntsman, TIME, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Named for the mythological Greek keeper of the winds, the old 56-foot fishing barge hosts up to twelve for one-day and longer cruises.
    — Pamela McCourt Francescone, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2021

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