How to Use Sisyphus in a Sentence

Sisyphus

noun

• Oh, there’s more than a bit of Sisyphus rolling the rock uphill here.
  — Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 12 Jan. 2026
• Sisyphus had tried to outsmart the Greeks’ rules of the game, and he was punished for his hubris.
  — Hazlitt, 3 Dec. 2024
• Ben’s comment about Sisyphus the night before rattled around in my head.
  — Hazlitt, 3 Dec. 2024
• The research and drug discovery had been like Sisyphus, back and forth and back and forth.
  — Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026
• To a universe that stays silent in response to our best designs, Sisyphus gives the middle finger.
  — B. R. Cohen, Longreads, 13 Jan. 2026
• Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus.
  — Erika Landström, Artforum, 2 June 2026
• The garbageman is Sisyphus, a… Subscribe or log in to continue reading.
  — Pablo Strauss, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
• More than once, the script references Sisyphus, one of the few characters in fiction who can rival its protagonist for bad luck with boulders.
  — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2026
• The song may be six minutes long, but the circuitous lope of his acoustic-guitar strum and low throb of his warbling feel eternal, like the type of tune Sisyphus might have hummed to keep himself company.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
• Raymond acknowledged he’s faced with a herculean task – not unlike Sisyphus rolling the boulder up the hill at Tartarus in Greek mythology.
  — Rick Jervis, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2025
• Belly’s response is meant to come off sweet, but instead is both withering and accurate, because no 10-year-old should be that familiar with the myth of Sisyphus or the curse of endless toil.
  — Thomas Page, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
• Jeff Probst reminds Mike White of Sisyphus, the mythological king cursed to spend eternity trying, and failing, to push an enormous boulder up a steep slope.
  — David Canfield, Vanity Fair, 20 Jan. 2026
• There’s so much vying for your attention, including a Sisyphus figure in the background rolling his interminable burden up and down an incline, that the maskwork that comes into play can begin to feel like Brechtian overkill.
  — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
• Consider Albert Camus’ Sisyphus.
  — Shai Tubali, Big Think, 5 Aug. 2025
• The first — Nietzsche’s 1881 Eternal Recurrence — is a life test by design, echoing Camus’ Sisyphus.
  — Shai Tubali, Big Think, 5 Aug. 2025
• This Sisyphus of Silicon Valley is on the front lines of a rapidly expanding industry of robot trainers, preparing to teach and operate the army of humanoid robots scheduled to march out of nearby factories in the coming year.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2026
• Stasis is vexing, but keeping Raskova in position as a Sisyphus of Soviet ideals sets up an interesting potential series of developments in her relationship with Irina.
  — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 10 July 2026
• Sisyphus’s Worst Day Ever is a 3D puzzle game that challenges players to engineer elaborate contraptions to keep Sisyphus trapped in an endless cycle, blending dark humor, inventive puzzle design, and a playful twist on an age-old tale.
  — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 23 July 2026
• Set against a stunning backdrop inspired by Ancient Greece, from boulder-rolling challenges inspired by Sisyphus to tense encounters with Medusa’s gaze, every quest determines the players that earn the strategic power to decide who visits Pandora’s Box.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025
• In Venice, François Ozon debuted a take on Albert Camus’ The Stranger, the notoriously philosophical text about a French Algerian settler and the myth of Sisyphus.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025