How to Use phoenix in a Sentence
phoenix
noun-
The phoenix will glow with a blue tone, he’s told.
—David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
-
The phoenix reframes it as part of the process.
—Francois Botha, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
-
Google rose like a phoenix from the dot-com’s ashes.
—Sunil Sharan, Fortune, 27 May 2026
-
The past is ablaze, the sky is full of smoke, but the phoenix takes wing.
—Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 13 Apr. 2013
-
He’s gone through the fire and this is a phoenix moment for him.
—Shirley Halperin, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2025
-
With each setback, the star – like a phoenix – rose again.
—Cheri Mossburg, CNN Money, 26 Nov. 2025
-
Get up and put the free kick in the back of the damn net that's what #this is phoenix and.
—SI.com, 20 Apr. 2018
-
The show is a chance to start new, for a phoenix to be born once again from the ashes.
—Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 July 2022
-
It was named for the mythic bird—the phoenix—that rose from the ashes.
—Eric J. Lyman, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2019
-
Things that burn can be built again, that the phoenix rises from the ashes.
—Liz Appel, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2024
-
The phoenix within you is rising.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 23 Nov. 2025
-
Rising like a phoenix from the ashes…or like a mermaid from the sea?
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 25 July 2023
-
The head of the phoenix is planned to swivel a little and the wings might flap slightly.
—Anthony Clark Carpio, latimes.com, 25 June 2019
-
There is talk in the town of a new club, a phoenix team, arising once old Bury’s last rites are read.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2019
-
The holder depicts a gold phoenix flying over a nest of laurels and leaves.
—Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 21 Dec. 2017
-
In this sense, the Universe would still die, but could be reborn in a phoenix-like event.
—Big Think, 20 Feb. 2026
-
The second, right next to it and covering up most of his bicep, is a phoenix.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
-
Within a day, my starter had revived, like a phoenix rising from the ashes.
—Washington Post, 2 May 2022
-
Yesterday, the school changed its mascot from a dragon to a phoenix.
—Intisar Seraaj and David Williams, CNN, 19 Oct. 2017
-
Soccer must have seemed like the phoenix to rise from the Chargers’ ashes.
—Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 June 2017
-
Kendall, on the other hand, rose like a literal phoenix from the ashes.
—Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 7 May 2019
-
Eighty Seven for a group show of 10 phoenix artists from across all mediums.
—Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic, 2 Mar. 2022
-
But Affleck, the proud owner of an ass-to-neck phoenix tattoo, is blond now.
—Neha Prakash, Marie Claire, 28 Feb. 2020
-
Full of pity, one phoenix flew north to help, and soon flowers bloomed, crops thrived, and a city came into being.
—Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2013
-
But, from any pile of ashes, a phoenix can rise if the right people can figure out how to summon it.
—Samantha Hissong, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2021
-
How about the mythical phoenix, rising from the ashes?
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
-
For folks who like to see faces in clouds, the sun’s surface appears to show a giant owl or a flying phoenix.
—Jade Walker, CNN Money, 30 Apr. 2025
-
The other main point is the close bond Dumbledore has with the phoenix.
—Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 9 May 2016
-
Just like the phoenix, Jack Black says Tenacious D will rise again.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 7 Aug. 2024
-
Siqueira said her most meaningful tattoo is a depiction of a phoenix.
—Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2026
Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'phoenix.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.
Last Updated:
