Sample Sentences for
Titans
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(editor-reviewed)

Titans as in:  the mythological Titan, Atlas

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In Greek mythology, the Olympians defeated the Titans in a ten-year war.
Titans = Greek mythology:  the giant-sized gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus
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    In Greek mythology, the Titans ruled during the legendary Golden Age.
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    "—and so there was this big fight between the gods and the Titans," I continued, "and the gods won."  (source)
    Titans = Greek mythology: giants who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus
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    What is this Titan that has possession of me?  (source)
    Titan = Greek Mythology:  one of the giant-sized gods
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    You're surely not thinking of the Multicorticoid Perspicutron Titan Muller, are you?†  (source)
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    It was not about the planet but about the passing of the self-styled Titans called humans.†  (source)
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    Meanwhile, Samson strides from the arena like a titan.  (source)
    titan = Greek mythology: one the giant-sized gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus
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    This man commands respect, even among titans.  (source)
    titans = Greek mythology: the giant-sized gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus
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    In the afternoon they box up the equipment in Etienne's study, Madame and Papa unplugging radios and lowering them into crates, Marie-Laure sitting on the davenport listening to the sets go off one by one: the old Radiola Five; a G.M.R. Titan; a G.M.R. Orphee.†  (source)
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    CLASH OF THE TITANS.†  (source)
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    Do not invoke the titan lord's name, Percy.  (source)
    titan = Greek mythology: of the giant-sized gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus
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    Titan of the system!†  (source)
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    He went with his father to a Titans baseball game, in the twilight semipro league.†  (source)
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    Do not think for a moment that the titan lord has forgotten you!  (source)
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titan as in:  titan of industry

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    And so it was with these titans clashing.  (source)
    titans = powerful people
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    He crushed several dozen avatars (including a few of his own troops) under his mech's titanic feet as he lumbered toward us, each of his footfalls creating a small crater in the rocky surface.  (source)
    titanic = very large
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    Did you know that it was light that made Rockefeller into a titan?  (source)
    titan = extremely powerful person
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    It occurred to me as I saw these titans of my family that, for the first eleven or so years of my life, I saw them during happy times—family reunions and holidays or lazy summers and long weekends—and in the two most recent years I'd seen them only at funerals.  (source)
    titans = powerful people
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    "We need to be self-sufficient," I imagined Dad would say as he dragged the panels across his titanic house.  (source)
    titanic = very large
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    I don't keep track of all those ancient monsters and dusty titans.†  (source)
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    When only two glowing tips remained above the horizon, Wang imagined them as the tips of the horns of a titanic bull rushing toward the sun.  (source)
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    The official occupancy of ten thousand fans will not be sufficient for the grand encounter of the little titans of the baseball world.†  (source)
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    He felt like he was witnessing the clash of two philosophical titans ....an unsettling blur of opposing forces.†  (source)
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    This gave to the titans an advantage which the gods, in the next battle, were quick to perceive.†  (source)
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    At first, it appeared that both horses would run in the former, and Maryland geared up for the meeting of the two titans.†  (source)
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    Now he was in Europe, caught up in a surreal battle of ancient titans, packing a semiautomatic in his Harris tweed, and holding hands with a woman he had only just met.†  (source)
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    Two of these daughters, Diti and Aditi by name, had given birth respectively to the titans and the gods.†  (source)
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Titanic as in:  sinking of the Titanic

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The Titanic was thought to be unsinkable.
Titanic = large British passenger ship that hit an iceberg and sank -- killing about 1500 people in 1912
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    Those people were rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic and everyone knew it.  (source)
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    The deck of the Titanic was packed with people.  (source)
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    The tithes at Happy Jack are like first-class passengers on the Titanic.  (source)
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    We watched the Independence ceremonies from a giant rusty barge tied to the bank of the Congo River that was loaded with so many pushing, squirming people Mrs. Underdown said we'd probably all go down like the Titanic.  (source)
    Titanic = large British passenger ship that hit an iceberg and sank -- killing about 1500 people in 1912
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    Remember the Titanic.  (source)
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    She rarely cried she'd even laughed at the ending of Titanic so why was she crying now?  (source)
    Titanic = a movie about the large British passenger ship that hit an iceberg and sank -- killing about 1500 people in 1912
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    He was sunk into a bean-bag chair, scanning the room, gripping the sack of cookies as if it were a flotation device on the Titanic and the captain had just yelled, "Save the women and children first!"  (source)
    Titanic = large British passenger ship that hit an iceberg and sank -- killing about 1500 people in 1912
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    They smell of stale bread, of stuffy living rooms crammed with dark titanic Breton furnishings.†  (source)
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    Titanic, Lusitania, Pax ...boats are not for harpies.†  (source)
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    That summer, Titanic fever gripped Kabul.†  (source)
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    Through the rage, the duty, the instinct, came a titanic, jittering fear.†  (source)
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    So was Captain Smith of the Titanic, Ryan thought.†  (source)
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    The Titanic made only one voyage, Mr. Torrance.†  (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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"And how do you like the Hall of the Sun, Lady Titans?" the girl across from me asks  (source)
Titans = a name
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