hades

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of hades In the 1997 film, it's revealed that Meg sold her soul to Hades to save her boyfriend, who eventually left her for another woman. Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025 The seeds seal Persephone’s fate as one who must spend part of every year with Hades among the dead. Demir Alp, JSTOR Daily, 29 Aug. 2025 Using gifts from the gods—Athena's polished shield, Hermes' winged sandals, Hades' helm of invisibility, and a sword—Perseus beheaded Medusa and later used her head as a weapon. Amanda Castro hannah Parry anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025 Epstein himself, competing from Hades, placed third (9.5 percent). George Kalogerakis, Air Mail, 9 Aug. 2025 In the Greek myth, musician Orpheus loses wife Eurydice to a snake bite and travels to the underworld to plead with Hades for her return. Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 8 Aug. 2025 The fictional Night Raven College serves as a training ground for aspiring sorcerers, with dormitories themed around villainous icons like the Queen of Hearts, Scar, Ursula, Jafar, the Evil Queen, Hades and Maleficent. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Aug. 2025 Riordan also announced, via a pre-taped video, that demigods Nico di Angelo and his sister Bianca, children of Hades, will be played in Season 3 by child actor Levi Chrisopulos and Olive Abercrombie (Mayfair Witches, Outer Range). Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 24 July 2025 Percy immediately returns the Helm to Hades, and decides to take the Bolt straight to Olympus himself — which is on the 600th floor of the Empire State Building. EW.com, 22 July 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hades
Noun
  • The crime drama follows a small-time Chinatown luxury counterfeit dealer who enters a dangerous black-market underworld in order to fund a life of suburban respectability for her family.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Bruno himself is preëxistingly missing, having vanished some years earlier, when things started getting uncomfortably hot in the cheese underworld.
    Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Nicole finds herself in an all too familiar place for those who have experienced the early phase of young-onset neurological disease, a netherworld between acceptance and denial.
    Gus Alexiou, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
  • The other two-thirds are on a scale of anxiously hopeful to beyond desperate -- an amorphous netherworld of doubt that, yes, includes the Miami Dolphins with Tua Tagovailoa, or should.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The inferno moved rapidly, quickly engulfing the chapel – with an unknown number of people still inside.
    Holly Yan, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The streamer will also be on stage for a panel about Paul Greengrass’ The Lost Bus, in which a wayward school bus driver and a dedicated school teacher battle to save 22 children from a terrifying inferno.
    The Deadline Team, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • They had been overly motivated to find a star QB after years of positional purgatory, but the return on investment hasn’t materialized.
    Jeff Howe, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Unfortunately, Thirtysomething is still languishing in streaming purgatory, with the show only available to watch on DVD.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The soul is the same one that ancient Egyptians called the ka, or that God promises the psalmist will be rescued from Sheol, or that lay dormant in the minds of so many contemporary American readers, waiting for the right sound to set it free.
    Christian Wiman, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024

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“Hades.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hades. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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