gryphon
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He describes Sir Thomas Browne’s compendium of real and imaginary creatures: the chameleon, the salamander, the ostrich, the gryphon and the phoenix, the basilisk, the unicorn, and the amphisbaena, the serpent with two heads.
From Salon • Feb. 4, 2013
The perpetually metamorphosing Baldanders, the silkworm unspoiled by human use, the unicorn and basilisk and gryphon — each of these spell out human desire.
From Salon • Feb. 4, 2013
Or, like Spiro Agnew, he invents hybridized contradictions: "That one is a gryphon unicorn."
From Time Magazine Archive
She wished it were she riding a gryphon and sorting through jeweler’s trays for just the right moon.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
He was trying to figure out how to string a frozen gryphon onto his necklace.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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