How to Use ogre in a Sentence

ogre

noun
  • The book portrays their father as an ogre who mistreated them.
  • Just throw in some ogre and donkey ears, and you’re set.
    — James Factora, Them., 17 Oct. 2025
  • So tonight this is for my handsome ogre, my tall drink of swamp water.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The queue for the Shrek ride winds through the ogre's cottage and then the swamp.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • But the only ogre in this story is Dahl.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Expect plenty of imps, ogres, and trolls and the series rolls on.
    — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 23 May 2018
  • To rescue their beloveds from a castle, two knights must fight a child-eating ogre to the death.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Along the way there are ogres, warrior tournaments and plenty of naked flesh.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Folks call Trump an ogre, monster, creature from the lagoon, etc.
    — Courant Community, 10 July 2018
  • The Turpin children have been under the control of an ogre (or two) for a very long time.
    — Maude Julien, Time, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Take the reclusive ogre-faced spider, with its large fangs and bulging, oversized middle eyes.
    — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 19 Oct. 2017
  • And the other thing is ogres have tempers, and so do Scottish people.
    — Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Now, inflation is the ogre under the bridge and shoppers are not so quick to pull the trigger.
    — Greg Petro, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The shoes come with the ogre’s classic ear buttons and button for his large nose placed on the clog’s holes in front of the shoe.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Every night at sunset, Fiona turns into an ogre (more on that later).
    — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 19 Oct. 2021
  • This greenish hue earned the fossil the nickname Fiona, like the ogre from Shrek.
    — Discover Magazine, 13 May 2025
  • One is a full size replica of the carriage formed from an onion that Shrek's ogre bride Fiona rides in.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • There’s even a first look at Zendaya’s teen-girl ogre — red hair, bangs, and all — in a new teaser for the movie.
    — Justin Curto, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Clarkson pressed him for more details, wanting to know if the pair sparked any romance in their ogre outfits.
    — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The ogre-faced or net-casting spiders hold their webs in their front legs and drop them onto passing insects.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 31 May 2017
  • There, Rand makes a new friend, an ogre — sorry, Ogier — named Loial.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2021
  • People are turned into wolves, there are ogres and undead creatures of the sea who lure others to their demise.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 7 June 2026
  • The ogre is faster than the gnome, slower than the unicorn, and was delayed arguing with a troll at a toll bridge.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Pay homage to the infamous green ogre with this costume that slides onto your dog’s front legs with a headpiece to match.
    — Ali Faccenda, Peoplemag, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The concept of going from a self-loathing ogre to a self-accepting ogre was meaningful to me.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 22 May 2022
  • Just like that, thanks to the power of a box-office-topping big green ogre, Frou Frou was back.
    — Rachel Brodsky, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Just like that, thanks to the power of a box-office-topping big green ogre, Frou Frou was back.
    — Rachel Brodsky, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2024
  • There are fairies and nymphs, unicorns, harpies, giants, ogres, trolls, Gollums and dragons.
    — Patti Restivo, baltimoresun.com, 14 June 2019
  • Tainted victories go in, sanitised fables come out; sons and daughters of the soil go in, evil ogres come out.
    — Harish Pullanoor, Quartz India, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Trump's attempts to paint him as a socialist ogre about to take us to Stalinism have fallen flat.
    — Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2020

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