Examples of faun in a Sentence
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The beggar and the faun were the two figures damaged, President of the City of Fountains Foundation Mark McHenry said in an interview with The Star.
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Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 1 June 2024
Part of a fountain, the reclining sculpture of the faun Silenus was commissioned by merchant Alessandro Grandi around 1576.
—Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2024
Rogowski, who threw a mean shape or two in such films as Disco Boy and Passages, also contributes a very physical performance, cavorting around Gravesend like a shy woodland faun or fowl.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2024
The teaser doesn’t show too much, except a glimpse of a faun, and perhaps a menacing minotaur, two fixtures from the mythical world of Greek gods.
—Dan Heching, CNN, 18 Aug. 2023
His faun-like tail?
—Cammy Brothers, WSJ, 7 May 2022
Here, though, all the dancers are the faun and their attention locks not on a nymph but on us.
—Brian Seibert, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
On the cover: What comes to mind in seeing Christopher Smith’s self-portrait as a faun?
—Amy Verner, Vogue, 24 June 2021
And what’s up with those zealous, self-flagellating fauns?
—Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 31 Aug. 2019
Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 1 June 2024
Part of a fountain, the reclining sculpture of the faun Silenus was commissioned by merchant Alessandro Grandi around 1576.
—Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2024
Rogowski, who threw a mean shape or two in such films as Disco Boy and Passages, also contributes a very physical performance, cavorting around Gravesend like a shy woodland faun or fowl.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2024
The teaser doesn’t show too much, except a glimpse of a faun, and perhaps a menacing minotaur, two fixtures from the mythical world of Greek gods.
—Dan Heching, CNN, 18 Aug. 2023
His faun-like tail?
—Cammy Brothers, WSJ, 7 May 2022
Here, though, all the dancers are the faun and their attention locks not on a nymph but on us.
—Brian Seibert, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
On the cover: What comes to mind in seeing Christopher Smith’s self-portrait as a faun?
—Amy Verner, Vogue, 24 June 2021
And what’s up with those zealous, self-flagellating fauns?
—Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 31 Aug. 2019
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“Faun.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/faun. Accessed 14 Sep. 2024.
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faun
noun
ˈfȯn 
ˈfän
: a figure in Roman mythology dwelling in the country and represented as part goat and part man
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