How to Use cyclops in a Sentence

cyclops

noun

• It is named for a cyclops in Greek mythology because of its beautiful eyespots — one on each wing.
  — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 8 Oct. 2020
• Stupendous, Tyrannis’ half-sister, daughter of Deliria and a cyclops.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 8 Sep. 2021
• One cyclops goes to a cosmetic surgeon to get two eyes — a nod, Dhaliwal said, to double-eyelid surgeries targeted at Asians.
  — Robert Ito, Star Tribune, 30 May 2021
• The shepherd Acis and the nymph Galatea share a deep romantic bond that is disturbed by the cyclops Polyphemus, whose ardors for Galatea are not returned.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 31 Oct. 2020
• Along the way, the two wayfarers do have to deal with a cyclops of sorts, but finally find the lovely Penelope (Mia Wasikowska) in a remote cabin.
  — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Jan. 2018
• Every culture has their sea myths, from tentacle monsters to cyclops to misogynists lost at sea, but this isn’t your typical Eurocentric mermaid tale.
  — Wired Staff, Wired, 2 July 2020
• Ten years ago, Iris design agency produced two silver cyclops extra-terrestrials to usher in the London Games.
  — Leah Dolan, CNN, 9 Feb. 2022
• In the book, cyclopes deal with being perceived as overly submissive, the lack of cyclops representation in Hollywood movies and worries about whether mixed children will have one eye or two.
  — Robert Ito, Star Tribune, 30 May 2021
• This particular cyclops is Etna, one of the characters Dhaliwal follows through a series of short comics that offer an intimate look at how Cyclopes live and work among the two-eyed majority.
  — Zan Romanoff, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2021
• In Renato Moriconi’s delicate watercolor illustrations, our hero sees off such dread opponents as cyclopes brandishing spears and cloud demons shooting lightning.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2018
• The 10-year journey is filled with interruptions and influence from the gods (not to mention a few cyclopes), as back home Penelope and Odysseus’s son, Telemachus, must contend with aggressive suitors who have sights set on the throne.
  — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 26 May 2026