the gods

plural noun

British

: the highest and cheapest seats in a theater

The people in the gods can be the hardest to please.

Examples of the gods in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Let’s start with the good news (and thank the gods for any good news about anything these days). —Adam Frank, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026

The stories need them but this is the case because dogs figure so powerfully in how literature and the visual arts imagine human interactions among themselves and with the gods who them-selves have dogs. —Literary Hub, 10 June 2026

So that’s in the lap of the gods, my friend. —Chris Willman, Variety, 8 June 2026

The 10-year journey is filled with interruptions and influence from the gods (not to mention a few cyclopes), as back home Penelope and Odysseus’s son, Telemachus, must contend with aggressive suitors who have sights set on the throne. —Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 26 May 2026

Rhymes for the gods

• applauds
• facades
• tripods
• amphipods
• arthropods
• copepods
• gastropods
• isopods
• pleopods
• tetrapods
• brachiopods
• cephalopods