Sample Sentences for
chimera
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    She describes his dream as a political chimera.
    chimera = something imagined, but not possible
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    The Chimera charged, its lion teeth gnashing.  (source)
    Chimera = Greek mythology: a fire-breathing monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail
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    St. Clair once told me that what most people think of when they hear the word "gargoyle" is really a chimera.  (source)
    chimera = an imaginary animal made up of parts of other animals
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    Mercy is a chimera.†  (source)
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    Tony's form became chimerical, indistinct.†  (source)
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    Jim slipped his hand through the leather mouth and hefted forth a metal shaft clustered with chimeras, Chinese dragons all fang, eyeball and moss-green armour, all cross and crescent; every symbol around the world that made men safe, or seemed to, clung there, greaving the boys' hands with odd weight and meaning.  (source)
    chimeras = imagined things that are not possible in the real world
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    Deep repose, mysterious refreshment for Swann,—for him whose eyes, although delicate interpreters of painting, whose mind, although an acute observer of manners, must bear for ever the indelible imprint of the barrenness of his life,—to feel himself transformed into a creature foreign to humanity, blinded, deprived of his logical faculty, almost a fantastic unicorn, a chimaera-like creature conscious of the world through his two ears alone.†  (source)
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    I am almost ashamed to own--that the terror and horror with which the animal inspired me, had been heightened by one of the merest chimaeras it would be possible to conceive.  (source)
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    Outside Victor's, the drab little café where my gonads had been so chimerically agitated by Leslie Lapidus and her hollow lewdness, I paused, went on, then returned; with its reminder of defeat it seemed as good a place as any to let myself drown.†  (source)
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    "Chimera," Henri says.†  (source)
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    Besides, were not those riches chimerical?†  (source)
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    For obligations were palpable, soundly rooted in reciprocal deeds; possibilities on the other hand were chimeras, flimsy and worthless, dangerous even.†  (source)
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    Or not expect perhaps, not even hope; not even dream since dreams don't come in pairs, and had I not come twelve miles drawn not by mortal mule but by some chimaera-foal of nightmare's very self?†  (source)
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