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

But that mad minute in the Curtin detention centre still loomed, a Damoclean sword over Chegeni’s head.

From The Guardian • Dec. 18, 2020

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

From The Guardian • May 12, 2015

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

If, however, the President signs the bill and it becomes a law, it is perhaps but short-lived, for the Supreme Court is ever present with its Damoclean sword.

From Philip Dru Administrator : a Story of Tomorrow 1920 - 1935 by House, Edward Mandell