Example Sentences

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The prospect of a Super League has been the great Damoclean threat hanging over European soccer for the better part of two decades.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2021

These facts and these questions now forever hang over their heads, Damoclean in their import.

From The Guardian • May 12, 2015

BBC3 With the Damoclean threat of BBC funding cuts being waved above Auntie's channels and stations, this new-talent comedy seems just the kind of show it should be investing in to justify its existence.

From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2010

But it is not just the case that the U.S. and China are locked in an inextricable economic embrace along the edge of a "Damoclean precipice"—another fashionable phrase within the Treasury.

From BusinessWeek • Feb. 26, 2010

Even if our author had no other troubles to contend with, the knowledge that this Damoclean sword was suspended above his head would have been enough to destroy his peace.

From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by Willcock, John