How to Use Trojan in a Sentence

Trojan

noun
  • In one scene, guards allow the Trojan Horse to enter the city fo Troy.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Each show can kind of Trojan Horse a little bit of what’s going on in the other show.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The play is about a love affair between two people in Troy during the Trojan War.
    Jacob Linden, Country Living, 17 Apr. 2023
  • But there was always something comedic about it, because that’s the best way to Trojan Horse a real idea into the world.
    Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 28 July 2023
  • And don't use that inquiry as kind of a Trojan horse to not then meet your responsibilities on all these other things.
    Nbc Universal, NBC News, 3 Dec. 2023
  • The new malware campaign seems to have ties to the Trojan virus - Emotet, which has been around since 2014.
    Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The spacecraft, called Lucy, is meant to study the Trojan asteroids, which share an orbit with Jupiter around the sun.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Seven of the eight are Trojan asteroids (which orbit Jupiter), and one is a main belt asteroid.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The soup also stands up to the bold flavors of the banchan, which arrive in a Trojan armada of pickled delights.
    Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2024
  • To that end, the gay communities are often portrayed as a potential Trojan horse for the West.
    Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The uses Apple and Disney have presented so far are a bit of a Trojan horse, experts said.
    Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2023
  • Some believed that Fridman and Khan planned the project as a Trojan horse to somehow push a pro-Putin agenda.
    Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The words belong to Cassandra, the Trojan prophetess doomed to be disbelieved.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2024
  • But declaring defeat against an app that serves as a Chinese Trojan Horse is both defeatist and premature.
    Michael Sobolik, National Review, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The Trojan Guarantee will be available beginning with next fall's freshmen class.
    Ryan Anderson, arkansasonline.com, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The right cajoled progressives to open the Trojan horse of anonymous surrender, and, soon enough, baby boxes crawled out of the woodwork.
    Maria Laurino, The New Republic, 29 June 2023
  • Lucy spacecraft will skirt Earth, coming within just a few hundred miles of us on its journey to the far-off Jupiter Trojan asteroids.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN, 15 Oct. 2022
  • Far from being a Trojan horse for big government, clean energy exemplifies free enterprise at its best.
    Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Enlarge / An artist’s conception of the Lucy spacecraft flying by a Trojan asteroid.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2023
  • More like Sideline Hills, as in that’s where everyone wanted to be on Friday night, watching Trojan football.
    Chris Hays, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Iliad flow, a reference to the ancient Greek poem about the mythic 10-year Trojan War.
    Scott Nover, Quartz, 11 July 2023
  • In 2010, the school built a Traveler statue across from the famous Tommy Trojan in the heart of campus.
    Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
  • My own pet theory is that the mantra is a kind of Trojan horse, a distraction at the center of it all to keep your mind occupied so that some other part of you can go deeper, or higher, or more free.
    Corey Seymour, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Following the Trojan War, the Greeks took a 10-year trip home that resulted in only one ship finishing the journey.
    Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The freshman phenom is the first Trojan since Adoree’ Jackson in 2016 to score punt, kick and receive touchdowns in the same season.
    Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The last Czech film to receive a nomination was Ondrej Trojan’s Zelary in 2003.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The epic poem tells the story of the Trojan prince Aeneas, a mythological character who first appears in the Iliad, and the founding of Rome.
    Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2023
  • The Trojan defense allowed Franklin County just a single first down with 53 yards total offense, including a -9 spot in the rushing total.
    Alex Harrison, The Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Connerty, a two-time NJCAA All-American, is the first Triton Trojan to achieve that honor.
    Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2025
  • An award-winning producer, journalist, and story editor, Katcher has developed and led audio projects, including work as a freelance producer at Trojan Horse Media.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025

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