How to Use phallus in a Sentence

phallus

noun
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  • And then the myth of the Asian phallus—there's always Asian dick jokes.
    — Steve Dool, Esquire, 27 Mar. 2017
  • Uh-oh… looks like Blake made a phallus out of his clay.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 2 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • And the forthcoming phallus walked us right into the penissance of 2022.
    — Kirbie Johnson, Allure, 16 Nov. 2022
  • His phallus and home-run bat were his prize possessions, in that order.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 25 May 2020
  • Bro Hart appears as little more than adenoids and a phallus.
    — Michael Friedrich, The New Republic, 9 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Two bronze phalluses are also among the items discovered in kings’ tombs.
    — Robert Taylor, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2017
  • Her hand clasps a phallus adorned with Ming dynasty porcelain motifs.
    — Mimi Vu, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The prominent phallus of the giant gets a lot of attention, quite rightly.
    — Washington Post, 17 May 2021
  • 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
  • Ninety-seven percent of all bird species have no phallus.
    — Rachel E. Gross, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Okay, but who gets this ridiculous, upside-down phallus trophy?
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 6 July 2021
  • Thanks largely to his 35-foot phallus, the giant has become a beloved fertility icon.
    — Keridwen Cornelius, Discover Magazine, 9 July 2021
  • Tara's Lia Fáil, a phallus-like standing stone, has a potent history, explains Lehane.
    — CNN, 17 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The giant is not only notable for his tall size but his nakedness, specifically his phallus.
    — Washington Post, 17 May 2021
  • They have been likened to sabre-toothed sausages, miniature walruses, and, not infrequently, phalluses on legs.
    — Alan Burdick, The New Yorker, 1 June 2017
  • Her signal motif—a headless woman—appears again, arranged in a multitude of ways: veiled, winged, hovering in the clouds, and jutting, phallus-like, from a horse.
    — Naib Mian, The New Yorker, 1 June 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Those looking to start a family shouldn’t miss the Chimi Lhakhang fertility temple in Punakha, where women wishing for a baby come to be blessed with a strike on the head by a 10-inch wooden phallus.
    — Chris Schalkx, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2023
  • A more sober explanation, meanwhile, is that phalluses were an integral part of the pre-Buddhist Bon religion of the Himalayas.
    — Lawrence Osborne, Town & Country, 30 Mar. 2015
  • However, when the Roman phallus was compared to a wooden phallus object from the New Kingdom of Egypt, it was found to be missing some of the features that it would be expected to have if it were mounted onto a structure.
    — Amarachi Orie, CNN, 20 Feb. 2023

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