Sample Sentences for
Cupid
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    Wouldn't you like if your tails were--so-- Curved in the shape of a Cupid's bow?  (source)
    Cupid = Roman mythology: (small, winged boy whose arrows make those struck fall in love)
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    There was no "mahogany furniture," but there was a white-painted bookcase filled with books, a cushioned wicker rocker, a toilet table befrilled with white muslin, a quaint, gilt-framed mirror with chubby pink Cupids and purple grapes painted over its arched top, that used to hang in the spare room, and a low white bed.  (source)
    Cupids = sculptures of winged boys from Roman mythology--whose arrows make those struck fall in love
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    Psyche marries handsome Cupid, but since he only comes to her after dark, her sisters persuade her that he is a monster.  (source)
    Cupid = Roman mythology:  god of love
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    She liked the exaggerated Cupid's bow of her upper lip, but not her cheeks, which she felt were too chubby.  (source)
    Cupid = mythological Roman god of love
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    We even sold the green marble mantle clock with the twin brass cupids.†  (source)
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    In a bizarre attempt to reflect this theme of modern enlightenment and yet stay within the decorative register of Renaissance architecture, the stairway banisters had been carved with cupidlike putti portrayed as modern scientists.  (source)
    cupidlike = like the mythological Roman god of love
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    The china cupid, sir, that stands on the writing-table.  (source)
    cupid = Roman mythology:  god of love; a small, winged boy whose arrows make those struck fall in love
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    i. A WILDERNESS OF GILT, gleaming in the slant from the dust-furred windows: gilded cupids, gilded commodes and torchieres, and—undercutting the old-wood smell—the reek of turpentine, oil paint, and varnish.†  (source)
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    She would tell me about Persephone's mother, Demeter, or Cupid and Psyche, and I would listen to her until I fell asleep.  (source)
    Cupid = the mythological Roman god of love
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    Cupids and sprites sported around it "The seventh is Life," the man in black said softly.†  (source)
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    He nocked another arrow in his pink plastic Cupid's bow and fired at Surt.†  (source)
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    The cupids are well fed and present a pretty picture to the street, against the severe granite of the facade; they are quite commendable, unless you just can't stand to look at dimpled soles every time you glance out to see whether it's raining.†  (source)
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    Between them, over the mantel, there's an oval mirror, flanked by two pairs of silver candlesticks, with a white china Cupid centered between them, its arm around the neck of a lamb.†  (source)
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