Sample Sentences for
Pandora
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    The museum has a beautiful painting of Pandora.
    Pandora = Greek mythology: the first woman; she was presented with a container which when opened released all of humanity's evils
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    You're doing one on Pandora next Monday.  (source)
    Pandora = Greek mythology:  the first woman; she was presented with a container which when opened released all of humanity's evils
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    You've been wanting to do that ever since Pandora let you out of that jar.  (source)
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    And he says, And do you know who Pandora was, Grace?†  (source)
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    They seem to believe that above all Pandora's Box must stay closed.  (source)
    Pandora's Box = Greek mythology:  a box given to the first woman which when opened released all of humanities evils
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    Obviously, Pandora's supply of venom wasn't running low.†  (source)
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    But he felt like he'd opened a Pandora's box—that the possibilities unlocked by a trip to the old wing had already grown and gotten away from him.  (source)
    Pandora's box = Greek mythology:  a box given to the first woman which when opened released all of humanities evils  OR  any source of great and unexpected troubles -- especially one that looked like a gift
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    Pandora, from Greek mythology, was given a box with all the world's evils in it.†  (source)
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    The dreamer has supplied us with no account of her associations, so that we do not know what special contents the box would have revealed; but it is certainly a variety of Pandora's box—that divine gift of the gods to beautiful woman, filled with the seeds of all the trouble and blessings of existence, but also provided with the sustaining virtue, hope.  (source)
    Pandora's box = Greek mythology:  a box given to the first woman which when opened released all of humanities evils
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    And since Pandora had it last, that's the story—and name—everyone knows.†  (source)
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    The first thing it did was to spawn a whole Pandora's box of DNA viruses-smallpox, influenza, and so on.†  (source)
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    I wondered if Pandora, too, wished she had scrutinized the contents first—heartache, cleverly disguised as a gift.†  (source)
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    They did not know it, but they were tampering with the lock of Pandora's box.†  (source)
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