How to Use Orpheus in a Sentence

Orpheus

noun

• Like Orpheus, Danielle looks back one final time in the orchard of her family home.
  — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2025
• Orpheus is seven miles long and a mile and a half at its widest, lushly forested and gently hilly, with the resort tucked in above a fringe of white-sand beach.
  — Susan Casey, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
• Orpheus, unwilling to have any- thing to do with women again, chooses to be- come a swan in his next life, while a swan decides to become a man.
  — Harpers Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
• Orpheus, unwilling to have anything to do with women again, chooses to become a swan in his next life, while a swan decides to become a man.
  — David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
• One is the great salesman, promoter, and the other sort of what [the Colonel] thought was a carnival act but turned out to be sort of Orpheus.
  — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 2 Mar. 2026
• Offenbach’s opera was inspired by the ancient story of Orpheus and Eurydice.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2025
• Ladd and Bruce met while working on an off-Broadway production of Orpheus Descending.
  — Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2025
• One is be based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and explores mythological themes based on various real-life stories.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Heartbroken over the death of his beloved wife, Eurydice, the musician Orpheus descends into the underworld to bring her back.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2025
• In Greek mythology, Orpheus was an exceptional artist granted a miracle.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 23 Jan. 2026
• In August, Kravitz told Meyers that her mom's pet snake, Orpheus, had gotten loose and slithered into a small hole in the corner of the bathroom.
  — Bryan West, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
• Orpheus and Pelorus are solar-powered; both take sustainability seriously.
  — Susan Casey, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
• The musical combines two classic tragedies, Orpheus and Eurydice and King Hades and Persephone, to create something both old and new.
  — John Coffren, Baltimore Sun, 12 Mar. 2026
• Hadestown is comprised of two intertwining love stories — that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone.
  — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 26 Mar. 2026
• Cyrene then instructs her son to appease the nymphs, Eurydice’s companions, and to make funeral offerings to Eurydice’s husband Orpheus.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Apr. 2026
• There are references to other stories coursing through Hamnet, and one of them is the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, which Will tells Agnes during one of their first meetings.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2025
• The Hollywood legends first crossed paths as aspiring actors who appeared in an off-Broadway production of Orpheus Descending.
  — Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2025
• In 1958, Ladd met Bruce Dern, a castmate in an off-Broadway production of Williams’ Orpheus Descending.
  — Chris Koseluk, HollywoodReporter, 3 Nov. 2025
• While songs about Orpheus are probably unlikely, Swift did reveal her 12th studio album on Tuesday, titled The Life of a Showgirl.
  — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• The Orpheus parade always rolls on the Monday immediately before Mardi Gras Day and culminates with the epic black-tie Orpheuscapade (more on that later).
  — Skye Sherman, Southern Living, 1 Feb. 2026
• In April 2025, Fisher returned to Broadway after a successful turn as Orpheus in Hadestown for a limited run of Moulin Rouge!
  — Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 11 Nov. 2025
• Dobrachkous, who is also an author, talked to THR about her love for storytelling in black and white, casting twins as Eva, and her plans for a film based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and another film about a snobbish Italian aristocrat.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• With music, lyrics and book by Anaïs Mitchell, Hadestown reimagines the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in a post-apocalyptic setting inspired by the Great Depression and New Orleans.
  — Sigal Ratner-Arias, Billboard, 11 Mar. 2026
• In this show — which reimagines the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in a post-apocalyptic setting inspired by the Depression era and New Orleans jazz — the Guatemalan singer-songwriter plays Persephone, Hades’ wife.
  — Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
• The death of Diane Elizabeth Dern, who was in the care of a babysitter at the time, took a toll on Ladd and her then-husband, actor Bruce Dern, who had only wed two years prior after meeting on the off-Broadway play Orpheus Rising.
  — Eric Andersson, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2025
• Soprano Katherine Polit stars as Eurydice, tenor Adam Caughey will play Orpheus, tenor Frank Napolitano plays Pluto, baritone Michael O’Halloran plays Jupiter and mezzo-soprano Sarah Nicole Carter will play Public Opinion.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2025