How to Use trident in a Sentence

trident

noun

• Many like to wear headlamps at night and gig them with trident spears.
  — Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2020
• Other paintings bring to mind a lyre and a yoke or a helmet and a trident.
  — Roberta Smith, Karen Rosenberg, Will Heinrich and Martha Schwendener, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2016
• From the front, the trident sits dead center in the large grille with a large air intake below.
  — Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 8 June 2018
• This is puzzling because the case for removing the trident was strong.
  — James Stavridis, Time, 25 Nov. 2019
• His trident can summon lightning, control the sea itself and even pierce the man of steel’s skin.
  — WSJ, 19 Dec. 2018
• On the side of the team’s truck, Ukrainian tridents mark their successes.
  — Marc Santora, New York Times, 1 June 2023
• The three-pronged trident of Maserati goes full-on pink, embracing the ethos of the most famous doll in the world.
  — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 26 Oct. 2022
• Sounds like Momoa trading in his trident for a cigar in the near future may not be so far-fetched after all.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 28 Apr. 2023
• Among them were horseshoes, nails, axes, a fishing trident, coins and keys, officials said.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
• The valet will leave it right out front like a head on a trident, warning pretenders in lesser machines to head to the public garage down the street.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 30 Mar. 2022
• Among them are storm god Hadad, who is depicted with a trident-esque lightning fork and looms larger than the rest.
  — Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 May 2022
• Simpson showed his tattoo, a tiny trident in the same area as Cyrus', off on his own Instagram.
  — Thatiana Diaz, refinery29.com, 3 Mar. 2020
• Atop it, there is no star of Bethlehem, but instead a trident, Ukraine's symbol.
  — Arkansas Online, 25 Dec. 2022
• The club's name is a reference to the trident, Ukraine's national symbol.
  — Brian Mann, NPR, 25 June 2026
• Her bae, Cody Simpson, joined her at the tattoo parlor and got a trident symbol on his forearm.
  — Seventeen.com Editors, Seventeen, 5 Jan. 2023
• In the right talon is the trident, which symbolizes Neptune, the Roman God of the sea.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Nov. 2019
• The Label, and its range of eco-wear, from tees to hoodies, shirts, bandanas and more — all stamped with the freshwater god’s trident.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2022
• The enthusiasm speaks to the legend and heritage of the brand that has borne the trident logo since 1914.
  — Hannah Elliott, Bloomberg.com, 25 Sep. 2017
• Caddo and trident maples are also good choices, but not silver maple, red maple and the smooth-bark hybrids such as Autumn Blaze.
  — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 19 Nov. 2020
• Dafoe’s Vulko shows up to give Aquaman his trident, which Aquaman wielded out of nowhere in the theatrical cut.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2021
• The other is a trident of 450-foot concrete smokestacks, built half a century ago for a seaside power plant.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2022
• From the side, the exterior is adorned only with the iconic trident on the C pillar and three vents right as the hood slopes into the windshield.
  — Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 8 June 2018
• Each prong of the trident is a separate concourse with its own TSA security gate.
  — Eric Adler, kansascity, 29 Oct. 2017
• The trident that is the company’s emblem is a replica of the one found in the Fountain of Neptune in Bologna.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 8 Mar. 2023
• This changed in 1970, when a gold trident became standard for all SEALs.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Nov. 2019
• This was changed in 1970, when a gold trident became standard for all SEALs.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Nov. 2019
• Raleigh celebrated with his teammates in the dugout, carrying around the Mariners’ trident, which is given to all players who hit a home run.
  — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2025
• Its most powerful weapon is the Poseidon-4 radar altimeter, named after the trident-wielding Greek god of the sea.
  — Frank Jordans, Star Tribune, 20 Nov. 2020
• Apparently Orm wants to use a magic trident to bring Atlantis back to the surface and declare war on the human race.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2018
• Deming who filed a complaint about training practices, still carries the trident from his days as a SEAL.
  — Catherine Herridge, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2021