How to Use Remus in a Sentence

Remus

noun
  • Uncle Remus, known for crunchy chicken and a sweeter mild sauce than Harold's.
    Monica Eng, Axios, 5 Sep. 2024
  • At 61, Alexander Remus has pared his life down to the essentials.
    Panashe Matemba-Mutasa, Mercury News, 12 Oct. 2025
  • After a bit, Romulus is ushered away and Remus is brought into the area.
    Mike Snider, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Three healthy pups with dire wolf traits were born, which the company named Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi.
    Joe Hernandez, NPR, 8 Apr. 2025
  • At just six months old, Romulus and Remus already weigh eighty pounds each—twenty-five percent larger than gray wolves their age.
    Nia Bowers, USA Today, 24 May 2025
  • The retiring three dogs − Moose, Remus and Daisy − joined the zoo as puppies and were each paired with a cheetah cub around the same age as them.
    Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 26 Oct. 2024
  • The company unveiled three fluffy dire wolf pups, named Romulus, Remus and Khalessi.
    Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 10 May 2025
  • Black singers, songwriters, and players are the Remus to Nashville’s Romulus.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2025
  • In the Harry Potter books, werewolf Remus Lupin drinks a potion made of wolfsbane each month to avoid harming anyone.
    Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Like Remus Gatsby Reserve, the bottles have an art deco design, and the cork is supposed to resemble the knob of a baseball bat.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 26 June 2024
  • Romulus and Remus, the two males, were born in October, while Khaleesi, the female, was born in January.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Shay Remus said this was the 27th year of Hometown Days, which has evolved from a downtown Yorkville event which needed a much bigger venue as time went on.
    David Sharos, chicagotribune.com, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Joshua Heming designed lighting and Remus Harrington designed sound.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Roman, Romulus, Remus were all offspring contenders—but then the money-vultures on Succession put the kibosh on that.
    Raven Smith, Vogue, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Mini-figures of wand-wielding Harry and Professor Remus Lupin are included, too.
    Jennifer Maldonado, EW.com, 23 May 2024
  • Remus also highlighted the food that features local vendors as well as the Ultimate Air Dogs competition.
    David Sharos, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Romulus was one of two mythological twins who were abandoned by their father and went on to found Rome — but Romulus eventually killed his brother Remus.
    Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 26 May 2023
  • The thief left behind two adjacent statues of Roman mythological figures Romulus and Remus.
    Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Remus, who is now 5, amazes his family by reading books on his own, a development which Whittenburg attributes in part to the Imagination Library.
    Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Striking the cross-armed pose on Instagram alongside Remus in front of a giant poster of her as Jeannie in a scarlet pantsuit, the nonegenarian with a twinkle in her eye vanishes from the shot.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 14 Apr. 2024
  • The three wolves brought to life by the company — Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi — emulate many unmistakable dire wolf characteristics, seen in their size, skull shape, and stunning white coats.
    Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Macondo develops beyond its primitive origins, too, even as its own Adam and Eve (or Romulus and Remus) presciently oppose much of what passes for progress.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Shay Remus, superintendent of recreation for the Yorkville Parks and Recreation Department, said the event is now in its 32nd year and has varied from three to four days over the years.
    David Sharos, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
  • If Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi could naturally mate with historical dire wolves and produce fertile offspring, then they would be considered true dire wolves under the biological species concept.
    Elay Shech, The Conversation, 30 May 2025
  • Charles Chesnutt tried in his work to present a realistic picture of the South at the turn of the twentieth century and was exasperated by the huge market for the literature of Uncle Remus–style folksiness.
    Darryl Pinckney, The New York Review of Books, 27 June 2023
  • The pinnacle expression is the annual release of Remus Gatsby Reserve, a 15-year-old bourbon that is decadent and delicious, with equal parts sweetness, spice, and tannic oak that doesn’t overwhelm notes of fruit and black pepper.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 15 May 2024
  • Emily Horne, an NSC spokesperson under Biden, also had her clearance revoked, as did Brett Holmgren, who most recently served as assistant secretary of State for intelligence and research and is married to former Biden White House counsel Dana Remus.
    Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, 19 Aug. 2025

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