How to Use Trojan War in a Sentence

Trojan War

noun

• Was the Trojan War fact or fiction?
  — Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Apr. 2026
• The clip opens in the aftermath of the Trojan War.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2025
• The problem, of course, is that the Trojans lost the Trojan War.
  — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2026
• Matt Damon’s Odysseus is a hero of the Trojan War — the hero, even.
  — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 18 July 2026
• The trailer opens with shots of the sea and a voiceover about Odysseus' victory in the Trojan War.
  — Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 27 Dec. 2025
• Sinon is Odysseus' cousin and a Greek soldier who fought alongside him in the Trojan War.
  — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 3 July 2026
• Tales from the Trojan War were passed down orally by bards for centuries until someone put pen to paper.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 17 July 2026
• The abduction or elopement of his wife, Helen, leads to the Trojan War.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 July 2026
• In the Trojan War, Agamemnon was commander of the Greek forces.
  — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 3 July 2026
• Cassandra, meanwhile, is a mortal who bore witness to the Trojan War.
  — Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
• In the film, Scott plays a Greek bard who sings about Odysseus’ victories in the Trojan War.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2026
• The film is based on Homer’s legendary saga of a Greek hero traveling home after the Trojan War.
  — Matt Minton, Variety, 8 June 2026
• Helen’s face is shown to be disfigured as well, due to supposedly an attack in the Trojan War.
  — Jon Root Outkick, FOXNews.com, 17 July 2026
• Jon Bernthal as Menelaus Menelaus is the king whose wife Helen sparked the Trojan War.
  — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 18 July 2026
• The first book begins 10 years after Odysseus has won the Trojan War, nearly at the end of his journey.
  — Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026
• The Trojan War might not have been real as told in the Odyssey, but the city of Troy was most certainly a real place.
  — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 16 July 2026
• The epic poem tells the story of Odysseus’ perilous journey home following the Trojan War.
  — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 16 July 2026
• By night, Menelaus, Odysseus and their fellow Greek soldiers emerge and win the 10 year Trojan War.
  — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 15 Apr. 2026
• The epic stars Damon as Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, on his epic journey home after the Trojan War.
  — Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 2 June 2026
• Odysseus counters that his lie helped win them the Trojan War, but Sinon fires back, saying that gives him no comfort when he is forced to wander among the dead.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 19 July 2026
• The Odyssey traces Odysseus’ arduous 10-year journey home after the Trojan War.
  — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 16 July 2026
• Helen is the queen of Sparta whose kidnapping by the Trojans ignited the Trojan War in the first place.
  — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 18 July 2026
• Helen is married to Menelaus but had run away to Troy, which was a precipitating reason for the Trojan War.
  — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 18 July 2026
• There are towns such as Kardamyli, so lovely that Agamemnon offered it to sulky Achilles to lure him out of bed to fight the Trojan War.
  — Antonia Quirke, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 May 2024
• Helen is the wife of Menelaus and considered to be the most beautiful woman in the world, and her abduction is what kicks off the Trojan War.
  — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 3 July 2026
• Both the poem and the film center around Odysseus, the Greek king of Ithaca, who battles his way back home after the Trojan War.
  — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 18 July 2026
• The Iliad is set over the course of a few weeks in the final year of the Trojan War, which was waged by the Greeks on the city of Troy for a decade.
  — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 16 July 2026
• Agamemnon is the commander of the Greek army that fights the Trojan War for the recovery of Menelaus’s wife, Helen.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 July 2026
• Telemachus learns from another king, Trojan War–vet Menelaus (Jon Bernthal), that there’s unrest among his subjects as well.
  — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 15 July 2026
• Odysseus, legendary Greek king of Ithaca, begins the long journey home after 10 years of fighting in the Trojan War.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 1 July 2026