How to Use satyr in a Sentence

satyr

noun
  • Like the imprints on the satyr’s hair, the coin’s patina has preserved the shapes of some fibres.
    — The Economist, 4 July 2019
  • Like the decking of the satyr’s ship, the wool then rotted away, leaving a cast of its fibres on the coin.
    — The Economist, 4 July 2019
  • Mermaids, centaurs, satyrs, and sphinxes.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Aryan Simhadri plays Grover Underwood, satyr and searcher for the great god Pan.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Depending on the mythology, a satyr can be a man with a horse’s ears and tail, or a being with a boat’s ears, horns, tail and legs.
    — Kris Holt, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Other frescos show the sensual embrace of a satyr (a half-man, half-goat) and a nymph (a maiden goddess).
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Oct. 2024
  • For instance, visitors can still see a faint line along the neck of the satyr where his new head was attached, and the marble is a slightly lighter.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 12 May 2024
  • Fosse, after all, was creating in his own image, whether rendering himself as a satyr, a sot or a snake.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The satyr has recently emerged from the Getty’s adept conservation labs.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
  • Both vases sported the same depictions of a satyr pulling the Greek god of wine, Dionysis, in a cart.
    — Kelly Crow, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2017
  • The other exemplary work is a large bronze figure of an elderly drunken satyr sprawled atop a lion pelt and wineskin strewn across a rock.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
  • The alterations also removed the putti, or cherubs, tugging at the goddesses’ robes and satyrs peeking in on the scene from the trees.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2024
  • This review has been updated to correct a misidentification of who played the leaping satyr.
    — Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Alabama is hiding what might be the largest population of Mitchell's satyr butterflies in the world.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • In one particularly evocative small clay sculpture, two figures that may represent a satyr and a nymph are embracing.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
  • That applies to only the Mitchell’s satyr Butterfly, found in Alabama.
    — John Sharp | [email protected], al, 6 Aug. 2023
  • In its history, Venus — flanked by a mischievous satyr and a joyful nymph — was sought after by European royalty.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 12 May 2024
  • Age-old paintings of satyrs bedding nymphs and mythological figures fornicating have been newly unearthed at a small house at Pompeii.
    — Alex Greenberger For Artnews, Robb Report, 30 Oct. 2024
  • In these six states, only the Mitchell’s satyr Butterfly is currently protected but it is found in Alabama.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 31 July 2023
  • Jacob Ming-Trent and Alex Newell drop in to sing their hearts out as, respectively, a minister and the satyr god Pan.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Grover is a cautious satyr who embarks on daring mythological journeys alongside Percy and Annabeth.
    — Christi Carrasstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2022
  • The Dresden picture features three satyrs—grinning rustics, horned and horny, who hope to make out with Diana’s accompanying huntswomen.
    — Julian Bell, The New York Review of Books, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Made of amethyst, bone, faience, glass, turquoise, and umber, and including phallic amulets, scarabs, a woman, a dancing satyr, and a head of Dionysus, they are thought to be the treasure box of a sorceress.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Unfortunately for the Saint Francis satyr, beavers have mostly disappeared from its native range in North Carolina.
    — National Geographic, 14 Mar. 2016
  • He is also remembered, among Brits with a taste for evergreen gossip, as perhaps the most erotically adventurous man of his generation, the satyr of the socialists.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Every good hero saga needs a sidekick, and Jorrel Javier fills the bill with hyperkinetic energy as the bumbling-but-loyal buddy Grover, a satyr who … um … talks to squirrels.
    — Dominic P. Papatola, Twin Cities, 20 June 2019
  • Through the eyes of a scammer, America is a nation of satyrs and harlots, our concupiscence interrupted only by occasional trips to Walmart or the gas station.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • That experience helped prepare him for the dangers of filming season 2 of Greek mythology series Percy Jackson, which resulted in more than one real wound for the young stars portraying half-human children of the gods, or, in Simhadri's case, a half-human, half-goat satyr hero.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Dec. 2025

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