How to Use phallus in a Sentence

phallus

noun
  • Both are scenes where the woman dares to insult the mighty phallus.
    — Joe Fassler, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2018
  • His magic flute in Mozart’s opera of that name was a three-foot phallus.
    — New York Times, 9 Feb. 2022
  • His phallus and home-run bat were his prize possessions, in that order.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 25 May 2020
  • Okay, but who gets this ridiculous, upside-down phallus trophy?
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 6 July 2021
  • Her hand clasps a phallus adorned with Ming dynasty porcelain motifs.
    — Mimi Vu, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Two bronze phalluses are also among the items discovered in kings’ tombs.
    — Robert Taylor, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2017
  • As in, stop throwing silicone phalluses on the court at games.
    — James Factora, Them., 8 Aug. 2025
  • The phallus could have been slotted into a statue for passers-by to touch for good luck or to absorb its protection from back luck.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Shout-out to fake beards, one of the best signifiers of comedy since the ancient-Greek gag phallus.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The prominent phallus of the giant gets a lot of attention, quite rightly.
    — Washington Post, 17 May 2021
  • The giant is not only notable for his tall size but his nakedness, specifically his phallus.
    — Washington Post, 17 May 2021
  • And the forthcoming phallus walked us right into the penissance of 2022.
    — Kirbie Johnson, Allure, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Given Roman cultural norms, there’s a good chance more phalluses are waiting for them.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Thanks largely to his 35-foot phallus, the giant has become a beloved fertility icon.
    — Keridwen Cornelius, Discover Magazine, 9 July 2021
  • Male turkeys have a rudimentary phallus in their cloacas located near the tail end of their digestive tract.
    — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 23 Nov. 2017
  • And yet the phallus is a dominant symbol of the moment, as metonym for power but also an object of ridicule as gender relations shift.
    — Vogue, 1 Apr. 2019
  • As the crew batters and flattens their junk, or covers it in bees, this literal destruction of the phallus could also be a symbolic one.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Tara's Lia Fáil, a phallus-like standing stone, has a potent history, explains Lehane.
    — CNN, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Finally, the third theory is that the phallus was once attached to a statue near the entrance to a significant building.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Carved from ash wood, the phallus was unearthed at the Roman Vindolanda fort site near Hadrian’s Wall.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Show the citizenry the phallus of a middle-aged attorney-slash-cocaine addict, preferably from many angles!
    — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
  • There was, however, an even more elemental form of digital graffiti—a bright-red cartoon phallus, right in the middle of the square.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Then, too, each of the two bars at Infinity is bracketed by a huge pair of pink neon phalluses, which glow in the night like homosexual icons.
    — Sally Helgesen, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • Also visible were parts of the phallotheca, a pouch that holds the uninflated, retracted phallus.
    — Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 20 Jan. 2021
  • But not everyone is convinced that the Mongolian pendant represents a phallus.
    — Bydavid Shultz, science.org, 16 June 2023
  • Contains a large red wooden phallus — a traditional Bhutanese symbol of protection against evil — and smoking.
    — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2024
  • In this production there is what looks like a large electric phallus to which Lohengrin ties up Elsa and then sits back and watches impotently.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2019
  • In the corpse flower, the volatile odor is dispersed by the heat the flower generates as the phallus-like bloom emerges, attracting carrion beetles and similar connoisseurs.
    — New York Times, 6 July 2018
  • Felicity Blunt’s odd way of making potatoes and the time Meryl Streep dug into a plate of tripe sausage that apparently looked a lot like a horse phallus.
    — Shannon Carlin, TIME, 15 July 2024
  • Someone painted a multi-story phallus on the building directly across from Sacramento City Hall.
    — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2019

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