Isis

in a sentence

After that would be Electra Woman and DynaGirl, followed by back-to-back episodes of Isis and Wonder Woman.  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

"It was Isis," Langdon told them, grabbing a grease pen.  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

For the millionth time, I regretted having given up the spirit of Isis.  (source) Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire, 2011

They had stopped for a rest, were lounging on the grass while Edith and Lorina played in the shallows of the river Isis, as that particular stretch of the Thames was called.  (source) Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars, 2006

Isis gleaming eyes held the man in thrall.  (source) Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire, 1976

Perhaps a touch of Isis and Osiris thrown in; Osiris was torn apart, and the goddess Isis succeeded in reassembling him except for the part that makes Jake Barnes resemble him (the Osiris myth is an Egyptian fertility myth).  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003

Besides, it's not like Isis is a secret.  (source) Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss, 2010

Isis was the wife of Osiris, friend of slaves and sinners, protector of the dead.  (source) Daniel Silva, The Black Widow, 2016

The entrance is adorned by giant statues of Isis and Osiris.  (source) Libba Bray, Sweet Far Thing, 2007

Isis Giving Bread and Water to the Soul (Egypt, date uncertain).  (source) Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, 1949

I suppose one joins the League of Nations Union, and reads the Isis every week, and drinks coffee in the morning at the Cadena café, and smokes a great pipe and plays hockey and goes out to tea on Boar's Hill and to lectures at Keble, and rides a bicycle with a little tray full of note-books and drinks cocoa in the evening and discusses sex seriously.  (source) Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, 1944

You will recall that both the cult of Isis and the Eleusinian mysteries were carried out in dark caves at night.  (source) Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, 1924

Their names were Isis, Amphitrite, Hebe, Pandora, Psyche, Thetis, Pomona, Daphne, Clytie, Galatea and Arethusa.  (source) Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera, 1911

"It will happen soon enough," Isis said, "as your mother foresaw."  (source) Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid, 2010

"Isis!" exclaimed Mrs. McDaniels, reaching out a hand to stroke the cat's fur.  (source) Henry H. Neff, The Second Siege, 2008

Subject two was lying seminude on the bed, smoking in violation of hotel rules and the laws of ISIS.  (source) Daniel Silva, The Black Widow, 2016

Polyps and echinoderms abounded on the seafloor: various isis coral, cornularian coral living in isolation, tufts of virginal genus Oculina formerly known by the name "white coral," prickly fungus coral in the shape of mushrooms, sea anemone holding on by their muscular disks, providing a literal flowerbed adorned by jellyfish from the genus Porpita wearing collars of azure tentacles, and starfish that spangled the sand, including veinlike feather stars from the genus Asterophyton that were like fine lace embroidered by the hands of water nymphs, their festoons swaying to the faint undulations caused by our walking.†  (source) Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, 1869

Isis turned her head and sniffed Max's mother.  (source) Henry H. Neff, The Second Siege, 2008

And so when a recruiter from ISIS comes knocking on their digital door, they're vulnerable.  (source) Daniel Silva, The Black Widow, 2016

In the first group: organ—pipe coral, gorgonian coral arranged into fan shapes, soft sponges from Syria, isis coral from the Molucca Islands, sea—pen coral, wonderful coral of the genus Virgularia from the waters of Norway, various coral of the genus Umbellularia, alcyonarian coral, then a whole series of those madrepores that my mentor Professor Milne—Edwards has so shrewdly classified into divisions and among which I noted the wonderful genus Flabellina as well as the genus Oculina from Réunion Island, plus a Neptune's chariot from the Caribbean Sea—every superb variety of coral, and in short, every species of these unusual polyparies that congregate to form entire islands that will one da†  (source) Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, 1869

"Isis was my charge, Max," explained his mother, stroking the cat's glossy fir.  (source) Henry H. Neff, The Second Siege, 2008

Evidently, the money wasn't intended for ISIS's general fund.  (source) Daniel Silva, The Black Widow, 2016

Mrs. McDaniels and Isis were dozing when Max and Cooper entered the healing ward.  (source) Henry H. Neff, The Second Siege, 2008

Many are educated, much more educated than the men who've joined ISIS.  (source) Daniel Silva, The Black Widow, 2016

"Come closer so I can see you," croaked Mrs. McDaniels, stroking Isis's sleek coat.  (source) Henry H. Neff, The Second Siege, 2008

"You want me to join ISIS?" she asked, incredulous.  (source) Daniel Silva, The Black Widow, 2016