Example Sentences

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The men finished in a semicircle on the ground, offering prayers to the Hindu sun god: “O Surya, the shining one, the radiant one, dispeller of darkness, source of life.”

From The New Yorker • Dec. 2, 2019

Possessed of every accomplishment of a warrior, he is a dispeller of the fears of friends.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan

He was a hero, a mighty bowman, the dispeller of the fears of my sons!

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan

And so he welcomed the rising sun with its promise of warmth as well as light—the blessed sun, dispeller of physical and mental ills.

From Son of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

For the wand of Dionysus punishes sufficiently the drunken man, but if anger be added it turns wine from being the dispeller of care and inspirer of the dance into a savage and fury.

From Plutarch's Morals by Shilleto, Arthur Richard