How to Use Scylla in a Sentence

Scylla

noun

• Scylla lives in a cave and tries to capture and eat Odysseus’ men.
  — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 18 July 2026
• Scylla pounces, snatching members of the crew between her jaws.
  — Chris Moody, The Atlantic, 16 July 2026
• Scylla snatches up six of his men, but the rest make it to Thrinacia.
  — Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 June 2026
• Odysseus must then make his choice between Charybdis or Scylla.
  — Tanya Fedak, Variety, 18 July 2026
• Then there are the Sirens and the sea monsters Scylla and Charybdis.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 23 July 2026
• The tentacular Scylla is seen briefly but makes an impact, yanking sailors off Odysseus’s ship in a series of loud jump scares.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 July 2026
• Odysseus and his crew must navigate the passageway between both Scylla and Charybdis.
  — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 18 July 2026
• Sea monster Charybdis lives across from Scylla and causes destruction and death by acting as a massive whirlpool.
  — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 18 July 2026
• Odysseus survives by following Circe's advice to sail past Scylla, despite knowing the monster will claim six of his men.
  — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 26 July 2026
• Odysseus sails closer to Scylla on the advice of Circe, who had identified Charybdis as more dangerous.
  — Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 June 2026
• Does anyone remember that Scylla and Charybdis are not monsters but goddesses?
  — Literary Hub, 21 July 2026
• One night this winter, hearing Scylla’s tale read aloud to him for the first time, my 3-year-old son, bundled in his pajamas before bedtime, had a request.
  — Chris Moody, The Atlantic, 16 July 2026
• The high peaks present a Scylla and Charybdis problem in winter, when the jet stream intensifies and storms roll in from the Pacific.
  — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
• Previous excavations in the area have uncovered figures such as Scylla and the cave of the giant Polyphemus.
  — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 26 Apr. 2026
• Unfortunately for Odysseus, Scylla is only one part of the threatening monsters.
  — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 18 July 2026
• After making it through a passage with a whirlpool on one side and a multi-headed monster named Scylla on the other, Odysseus and his crew land on the island of Thrinacia.
  — Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026
• In the book, Scylla and Charybdis trap Odysseus in a narrow strait, with Scylla waiting on one side to snatch sailors from passing ships and Charybdis creating a massive whirlpool on the other.
  — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 26 July 2026
• After sailing past Scylla and Charybdis (and losing six men), Odysseus lands in Thrinacia, where his companions plunder the Cattle of the Sun.
  — Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 June 2026
• In all, designing, building and assembling the horse involved a team of 45, not much less than the number of men on Odysseus’ ship (and roughly the same amount on board after the Cyclops and Scylla monsters had plucked off a few).
  — Alex Ritman, Variety, 13 July 2026
• The statues of Polyphemus, Scylla and Charybdis, and other figures from The Odyssey discovered in Tiberius’s villa attest to the area’s millennia-long ties to myths and legends.
  — Laura Itzkowitz, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Aug. 2026
• Yet increasingly, literary biography seems to steer between the Scylla of fictionalisation (never mind the facts, feel the prose) and the Charybdis of non-literary history (never mind the prose, feel the facts).
  — Literary Hub, 20 July 2026
• The town is named for the Greek mythological creature Scylla, a sea monster with multiple heads that was fabled to terrorize sailors (most notably, the hero Odysseus) who dared to travel the water between Italy and Sicily.
  — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026