gryphon
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
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
Or, like Spiro Agnew, he invents hybridized contradictions: "That one is a gryphon unicorn."
From Time Magazine Archive
He was trying to figure out how to string a frozen gryphon onto his necklace.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
Except for the hydra in her swamp and the baby dragon, the exotics—the unicorn, the herd of centaurs, and the gryphon family—lived on an island meadow surrounded by an extension of the castle moat.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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