Venusin a sentence
Venus as in: the Olympian goddess
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He also brought back sacks of gypsum, and Mom mixed it with water to make Venus de Milo sculptures from a rubber cast she ordered through the mail.
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Venus = goddess of love in Roman mythology
- Every time I see a female nude, such as the Venus in my art history book, I go into ecstasy. (source)
- Our house was filled with stuff: papers, books, tools, lumber, paintings, art supplies, and statues of Venus de Milo painted all different colors. (source)
- In Roman mythology, Venus is the counterpart to the Greek Aphrodite.
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Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt's death,
And therefore have I little talk'd of love,
For Venus smiles not in a house of tears. (source)
- Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word, (source)
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A planet like Venus has less than one percent oxygen.
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venus = planet between Mercury and Earth
- I didn't have any jewelry and it had been a long time since anyone had given me a present, except for the planet Venus.† (source)
- Cello music swelled out from the house, rising higher and higher until it lifted off the earth, sailing toward Venus.† (source)
- Overhead, a vault of watery blue, Venus and the north star captured within.† (source)
- Dressed for a jaunt on Venus, he strolled to the supermarket, the hardware store, and everywhere else he needed to go.† (source)
- So, as he tiptoed into the Finns' bedroom, he called upon Venus to veil him in a mist— just as she had for her son, Aeneas, when he wandered the streets of Carthage—so that his footfalls would be silent, his heartbeat still, and his presence in the room no more notable than a breath of air.† (source)
- Oh, different names, perhaps-Jupiter for Zeus, Venus for Aphrodite, and so on-but the same forces, the same gods.† (source)
- Said the fly just before landing in the Venus flytrap.† (source)
- As a tribute to the magic of Venus, the Greeks used her four-year cycle to organize their Olympiads.† (source)
- Venus, Earth.† (source)
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- "Yeah....cool...." said Harry, scribbling it down, "because...Venus is in the twelfth house."† (source)
- Or Venus.† (source)
- I can see it now: me holding a map, scratching my head, trying to figure out how I ended up on Venus.† (source)
- They're made out of some kind of astronaut plastic that could crash-land on Venus and not break.† (source)
- Venus is also the name of a planet.† (source)
- "There," he says, pointing, and in the margin I see it, written in the same ink as the hair on the Venus.† (source)
- Venus.† (source)
- Auntie Venus had been for almost half a century a vital nursing presence across a swath of the Northern Territories in Canada.† (source)
- When a fly, attracted by the smell of the flower, lands on the Venus flytrap, the mouth of the plant begins to close, trapping the fly.† (source)
- Above me, I could see Orion's belt; just over the horizon on the water, Venus had appeared and glowed a heavy white.† (source)
- Because I did not want to be anywhere near the bodies on the floor I drifted over to inspect a group of artists' casts on a beat-up table: a male torso; a draped Venus leaning against a rock; a sandaled foot.† (source)
- The year of the cow; fifteen years old; the planet Venus; six, white.† (source)
- There's a scene in Our Mutual Friend (1865) in which the two villains, Mr. Venus and Silas Wegg, are plotting evil.† (source)
- There would be miracles at the fair—the chocolate Venus de Milo would not melt, the 22,000-pound cheese in the Wisconsin Pavilion would not mold—but the greatest miracle was the transformation of the grounds during the long soggy night that had preceded Cleveland's arrival.† (source)
- These gods were referred to by a special collective name, vaner, a word that is related to the Latin name for the goddess of fertility, Venus.† (source)
- Taking my hand, she said, 'I was so afraid it was to be born like Venus out of the foam, as we were!† (source)
- "Duh," he said, smoothing my hair back, "Venus and Earth."† (source)
- He sounded so excited you'd have thought we had just landed on Venus.† (source)
- This man, a friend of Jean de Satigny, had transformed his humble raw materials—flour, eggs, and sugar—into a replica of the Acropolis crowned with a cloud of meringue on which rested two mythological lovers, Venus and Adonis, fashioned out of almond paste colored to imitate the rosy tones of their flesh, their blond hair, and the cobalt blue of their eyes; with them was a pudgy Cupid, also edible, which was sliced in half with a silver knife by the proud groom and the dejected bridle.† (source)
- I, on the other hand, felt like I was starring in my own chapter of Babies Are from Mars, Gaby Is from Venus.† (source)
- Overhead, Venus now peeked out of the darkening blue.† (source)
- So did ya eat flies, like a Venus flytrap?† (source)
- One's named Elliott, one's called Venus—how weird is that—and the other one is called Stevie Rae.† (source)
- Surely not the collar of Venus?† (source)
- It held even though the piano players went to music school and actually learned to read notes, even though new churches became glass and steel monstrosities that looked like they had just touched down from Venus.† (source)
- She looks like she was the mold for Venus, Goddess of Love.† (source)
- Adams found the total effect greatly to his liking, but thought temples to Venus and Bacchus unnecessary, as mankind had "no need of artificial incitements to such amusements."† (source)
- It was the Dionaea muscipula, the Venus flytrap.† (source)
- They would not know the nature of what they felt, but the painting would show them everything-even that you're not some classical Venus, but the Vice-President of a railroad, because that's part of it-even what I am, because that's part of it, too.† (source)
- It's in Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus.† (source)
- Its one continent is about half the size of Australia, plus many worthless islands; it would probably require as much terra-forming as Venus before we could use it.† (source)
- She was given to anything vampric, went wild for Blacula, Christopher Lee, Lugosi, bats, Venus'sflytraps, and she said it was the best way, to use your mouth, that this was it, this was the thing that made us human.† (source)
- The famous impressario, C. B. Cochran, claimed "the ideal modern girl—the Venus of today—should be neither thin nor plump, but should have the lines of a greyhound."† (source)
- So astonishing was his physique that another man unabashedly described young Abraham Lincoln as "a cross between Venus and Hercules."† (source)
- Although the asteroid is currently well within the orbit of Venus, the degree of thermal coefficient necessary for successful melting of the entire, assuming any significant quantity of nickel iron in its composition, is one point six times ten to the sixteenth joules.† (source)
- "Next year," I said, "there ain't gonna be enough of you left next year to feed a Venus fly trap."† (source)
- In the 3¢ Mothers of America Issue, put out on Mother's Day, 1934, the flowers to the lower left of Whistler's Mother had been replaced by Venus flytrap, belladonna, poison sumac and a few others Oedipa had never seen.† (source)
- He looked up at the summer stars, at blue Venus and red Mars.† (source)
- You can begin by telling me how the early space-exploration robots worked, like, say the ones they used on Venus.† (source)
- I lay looking straight up at the blue-green sky with its translucent shawl of mist; like a tiny orb of crystal, solitary and serene, Venus shone through the haze above the quiet ocean.† (source)
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