How to Use the Garden of Eden in a Sentence

the Garden of Eden

noun phrase
  • Can any lover just remain in the Garden of Eden?
    — Literary Hub, 17 Mar. 2026
  • In the center of the Garden of Eden were the tree of knowledge and the tree of life.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 12 Feb. 2024
  • At the end of the movie, the family are expelled from the Garden of Eden.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 7 July 2025
  • This is why the Seychelles is at times referred to as the Garden of Eden.
    — Marcia Desanctis, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2023
  • What was lost in the Garden of Eden will be restored in the Kingdom of God.
    — James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • In the Bible, the Euphrates was even mentioned as one of the four rivers that served the Garden of Eden.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The tale of Eve being blamed for the sin of man in the Garden of Eden was also a strong inspiration.
    — Jada Yuan, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2026
  • There weren’t apples in Mesopotamia, for instance, so the tempting fruit in the Garden of Eden story was more likely a fig.
    — Laura Helmuth, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The first page had an illustration of a brachiosaur sharing the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve.
    — John Blake, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The most famous garden, certainly in literature, is the Garden of Eden.
    — Jessica Ferri, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
  • Some theologians argued that Adam and Eve, as well as all the animals in the Garden of Eden, ate only plants.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 4 Aug. 2025
  • After Adam was created and let loose in the Garden of Eden, his original job was human label-maker.
    — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
  • In the creation story of chapters 2 and 3, God places man in the Garden of Eden, then creates woman, Eve, from his rib.
    — Samuel L. Boyd, The Conversation, 20 June 2023
  • And some obvious references to the Garden of Eden with a woman named Eve searching for her truth are ham-fisted, but also a hallmark of the genre.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 5 June 2025
  • The rivers here, some scholars say, fed the fabled hanging gardens of Babylon and converged at the place described in the Bible as the Garden of Eden.
    — Alissa J. Rubin, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2023
  • The Christian creation myth, for instance, conjures the Garden of Eden, a lush paradise where food was plentiful and pleasure abounded.
    — Naomi Huffman, The Atlantic, 10 July 2024
  • According to tradition, Lilith left the Garden of Eden after refusing to be subservient to Adam.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 May 2026
  • The tree echoes the Biblical story of the Garden of Eden, and the Forbidden Fruit eaten by Eve.
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • Just think of the serpent in the Garden of Eden who misrepresented God's command not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil to entice the first humans to do just that.
    — Pia Lauritzen, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The olive tree, like the apple tree in the Garden of Eden, stands as an emblem for these times, when everything is so difficult, when all our reasoning is so clogged up and logic is turned on its head.
    — Emmanuel Iduma, ARTnews.com, 4 May 2026
  • And there are those who may view Coppola’s insistence that the Garden of Eden can be dialectically willed into existence as naive.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2024
  • Adam and Eve’s cautionary tale of humanity’s fall from grace in the Garden of Eden could provide a patron the public veneer of biblical piety.
    — Christopher Knight, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Adam and Eve’s cautionary tale of humanity’s fall from grace in the Garden of Eden could provide a patron the public veneer of biblical piety.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Adam and Eve’s cautionary tale of humanity’s fall from grace in the Garden of Eden could provide a patron the public veneer of biblical piety.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Suddenly self-conscious, Jem appears to shrink into herself, like Eve in the Garden of Eden, discovering the shame of her own body.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 12 May 2023
  • Waddy’s big brother Jimmy did the artists a favor and took the cover photo, presenting them as a wide-eyed hippie couple in the Garden of Eden, before shirts were invented.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Visitors are greeted with a diorama depicting children and dinosaurs interacting peacefully in the Garden of Eden.
    — Peter Smith, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2025
  • Their symbolic power has a dark and thrilling history, beginning with their debut in the Garden of Eden, then turning up in Medusa’s coiffure, and even being found guilty for the murder of Cleopatra.
    — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Angels could be seen all around — some on the walls depicting Moses' life and death, and another above, on Michelangelo’s fresco, banishing Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden.
    — ABC News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • The Catholic Church teaches that all other people are conceived with original sin as a result of Adam and Eve’s disobedience to God in the Garden of Eden.
    — Bridget Retzloff, The Conversation, 2 June 2026

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