How to Use the gods in a Sentence

the gods

plural noun
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  • Her blonde hair is styled and piled as high as the gods.
    — Marc Malkin, Variety, 3 May 2024
  • The only way to break her sister's bond is to kill her, the gods say.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 14 July 2024
  • And then the wind, as fickle as the gods, abruptly shifted in front of them.
    — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
  • But if there was an Asian woman who could beat my face for the gods, bring her.
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Some traditions place him as the father or ruler of the gods.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2023
  • There’s powerful people, then there’s the gods of Mt. Olympus and then there’s the god of the gods.
    — Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • That way the gods can see if Los Angeles is still there.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • So, despite the vote of the human Senate, the gods agree to send Claudius packing.
    — Mary Beard, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • Head for Drake’s Barrel House to take up thy dice while sipping from the goblets of the gods.
    — Brittany Delay, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Just a thought: What if the gods are using the eclipse to tell us everything is awesome?
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Hermes was a known as a messenger to the gods in the Ancient Greek pantheon.
    — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 8 July 2024
  • And Faust, who made a contract with the Devil, is surely a better archetype than Prometheus, who stole fire from the gods.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 25 July 2023
  • And for people who hate themselves, as artists often do, this is nectar of the gods.
    — Chris Fleming, SPIN, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The demise of the gods signals the dawn of Earth, humanity, and creative beauty.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The myth goes as follows: Coatlicue, mother of the gods, sweeps outside her temple when a ball of feathers falls from the sky.
    — María Teresa Hernández, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Apr. 2023
  • In this production, the gods look like British royals out for a round of polo and a picnic.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The artists that are the chosen of their generation do not simply follow a path set out for them by the gods.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 27 Nov. 2023
  • From the gods, from spirits, from raging voices that spoke in silence.
    — Benjamín Labatut, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • Dried out and shaped into bowls, squash was used in the Mayan region as offerings to the gods for blessings over their harvest.
    — Andrea Aliseda, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Stricken by grief, Alida prays to the gods, who turn her into a red flower.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Trending Editor’s picks Forty years later, his words resonate like a dare to the gods.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Long ago, shooting stars were commonly thought to be omens, prophecies, or messages from the gods.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Thank all the gods for Evil, which reassures us that there’s nothing more human than being afraid.
    — EW.com, 9 July 2024
  • Whatever fat once existed in that grind had been sacrificed to the gods, and the gods were now angry.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The entrails conveyed a large number of signs that were said to convey the gods' approval or disapproval.
    — Steve Denning, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Luckily, the gods intervene and transform Iphis into a man just in time for the wedding.
    — Maggie Lange, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Dead behind the eyes, hair gelled to the gods, just munching away in an act of psychological warfare.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Pouring out libations, making prayers, burning sheep down to the bones as an offering to the gods.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Its mystery led the early Greeks, who first named it, to view it as a gift of the gods: something that might be conferred but cannot be cultivated.
    — Susan Neiman, The New York Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The most important color turns out to be purple, the hue of a cloud that augurs the millennia-spanning quarrel of the gods and their worshipers.
    — Stephen Kearse, Washington Post, 17 July 2024

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