Cuchulain
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
That helped draw in 24-year-old Cuchulain Kelly and his friends.
From Washington Post • Nov. 8, 2016
"Being an immigrant church, we wanted to show we were more American than anyone," explains Father Cuchulain Moriarty, who runs San Francisco's archdiocesan social justice commission.
From Time Magazine Archive
![]()
We’d fish for eels and fry them in a pan not like Cuchulain, who would pluck them from the lough and swallow them, wriggling, because there’s great power in an eel.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
![]()
It was a great silvery sheet of water and Dad said it was Lough Neagh, the largest lake in Ireland, the lake where Cuchulain used to swim after his great battles.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
![]()
She wouldn’t cry anymore and my mother wouldn’t be in the bed day and night and Dad would be telling me Cuchulain stories and I wouldn’t want Mrs. Leibowitz to be my mother anymore.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
![]()
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.