gryphon

/ ˈɡrɪfən /

noun

1. a variant of griffin 1

Example Sentences

He hacked a gryphon out of the air.

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They argue over who will get to ride the gryphon but Widget relents when Celia tells them the story of the nine-tailed fox just behind it, which suddenly sounds much more appealing.

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She stood outside the mullioned window, stroked the gryphon’s sleek feathered head, and suffered a pang of absurd envy.

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“Yeah, him too. But they were talking about Herodotus saying there were giant ants and gryphons guarding gold mines, and how he made this stuff up.”

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One newspaperman described the megalosaurus, the greatest of the “antediluvian monsters,” as a scaly dragon with the “head of a gryphon” and an “eye as big as a cheese-cake.”

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