the gods
plural noun
British
: the highest and cheapest seats in a theater
The people in the gods can be the hardest to please.
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These rituals required fasting, animal sacrifices and offerings of precious goods like jade and silk in order to appease the gods and secure their blessings.
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Livia Hengel, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
Flowers can at times displease the gods The Puranas also explain which flowers might displease the gods.
—Robert J. Stephens, The Conversation, 27 Sep. 2024
Newman will be in attendance on opening night, and so, perhaps, will be the gods of irreverent theater.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 28 Sep. 2024
But Zeus, king of the gods, defeated and then punished them.
—Sarah Nooter / Made By History, TIME, 9 Sep. 2024
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Livia Hengel, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
Flowers can at times displease the gods The Puranas also explain which flowers might displease the gods.
—Robert J. Stephens, The Conversation, 27 Sep. 2024
Newman will be in attendance on opening night, and so, perhaps, will be the gods of irreverent theater.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 28 Sep. 2024
But Zeus, king of the gods, defeated and then punished them.
—Sarah Nooter / Made By History, TIME, 9 Sep. 2024
See all Example Sentences for the gods
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