How to Use Zeus in a Sentence
Zeus
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Zeus could launch thunderbolts but also couldn’t keep his trousers on.
—Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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Amanda Worth's dog Zeus runs into the kitchen.
—Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians has found its new Zeus.
—Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 2024-11-25
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The ancient Olympics were held in honor of Zeus, king of the Greek gods.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2024-07-15
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Fearing them, Zeus split them in two, and people spend their lives searching for their other half.
—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 2023-08-27
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In her most recent update, Owens shared that Zeus’ stay at the vet would be extended.
—Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 2024-04-06
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Emerging from the dark cloud was a hand holding a bolt of lightning like the Greek God Zeus.
—Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 2025-06-18
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Goldblum's Zeus is wealthy, jealous, power-hungry and fond of stylish tracksuits.
—Anya Jaremko-Greenwold, The Week Us, theweek, 2024-07-29
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The Olympics were held at the beginning of each Olympiad to honor the Greek god Zeus.
—Simmone Shah, TIME, 2024-07-10
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The late Zeus from Otsego, Michigan still boasts the title of world’s tallest dog ever.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 2024-10-10
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This isn’t the Zeus network, and Natalie Nunn isn’t around the corner.
—Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 2025-03-31
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Blood of Zeus is an epic war between gods, mortals and demons in this dynamic mash-up of anime and mythology.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 2024-07-27
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Bella and Daisy were also in the top three for girls and Milo and Zeus rounded out the top three for the boys.
—Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2023-12-29
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But just what makes Io, named after a mortal woman in love with Zeus in Greek mythology, so fussy?
—Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 2024-03-07
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Asclepius was a gifted healer, too gifted perhaps, and he was killed by Zeus for the impiety of raising the dead.
—Teju Cole, New York Times, 2023-09-12
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Luc Belaire unveiled Zeus, the world’s largest bottle of bubbly, earlier this week.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 2023-06-28
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To make matters worse, the Zeus Network star also tattooed Soulja’s name on his cheek in purple ink.
—Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 2024-07-18
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Like Athena breaking through Zeus’ head, an icon was born into the blogosphere in the 2010s.
—Chloe Berger, Fortune, 2023-11-05
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She’s forced into an engagement to none other than Zeus—the top god of the city’s reigning Thirteen Houses.
—Emily Bond, menshealth.com, 2023-04-19
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That means playing as Greek gods, fighting across Mount Olympus, and wielding Zeus’ thunderbolt.
—Andrew Webster, The Verge, 2024-03-08
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New powers are available, including the Thunderbolt of Zeus and the power of flight with the Wings of Icarus.
—Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 2024-03-08
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Olympian legends — including Hades and the thunder god Zeus — now rule the Island in otherworldly rage.
—Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 2024-03-08
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The Olympics started as an ancient religious and athletic tradition among the Greeks in honor of the god Zeus.
—Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 2024-08-01
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The birds and flowers are emblems of a tender heart, while the armory of spiky weapons—a spear and a bow on her calves, the thunderclouds of Zeus on her shoulder—are badges of a fighting spirit.
—Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 2023-09-11
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Since Zeus' story went viral online, many TikTok users have praised Rodriguez for saving him and giving him a second chance at life.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 2025-03-14
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The game features a rotating cast of Greek gods, from Aphrodite to Zeus, who assist Melinoë on her journey with powerups and special abilities.
—Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 2024-05-06
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In order to save the world’s harvests, Zeus convinced Hades to allow Persephone to return to her mother for most of the year and return to the underworld in the winter.
—Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 2024-05-09
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Phillips talked to her students about an excerpt of Plato’s Symposium, in which—at the beginning of time—Zeus splits each human in two in order to foil their plan to overthrow the gods.
—Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 2025-03-10
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The name of the path is slightly ill-omened, since Zeus killed Phaethon with a thunderbolt after the boy failed to control a chariot belonging to his father, Helios, the sun god.
—Charlotte Higgins, Travel + Leisure, 2023-10-09
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In April, a dog in its crate survived a tornado in Nebraska, with winds strong enough to lift the Zeus, the 1-year-old Rottweiler, and the crate four blocks across the neighborhood.
—Marina Watts, People.com, 2024-10-22
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