Clashing Rocks

American  

plural noun

1. Symplegades.

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Example Sentences

Long before the Argonauts reach the fabled land of Colchis, they defeat a tribe of giants, accidentally slaughter their own friends, pass through the ship-crushing Clashing Rocks and, worst of all, lose Heracles.

From Washington Post

He gave them wise advice, too, about the dangers before them, in especial about the Clashing Rocks, the Symplegades, that rolled perpetually against one another while the sea boiled up around them.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Then launching forth from Thessaly, we threaded the Hellespont with shouts, breathlessly dodged the Clashing Rocks, and coasted under the lee of the Siren-haunted isles.

From The Golden Age by Grahame, Kenneth