Apollyon
Example Sentences
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Apollyon: It doesn’t affect the majority, which is the people who are right at the bottom.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2022
Apollyon: It definitely does depend on the area or the work force that you’re in.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2022
On the Hill, the party of Faust stuck together and vociferously defended their Apollyon.
From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2019
Exceptions: showing Christ as a young man wistfully watching the youths and maidens walking out together through the fields; making Judas an evident fiend, a bat-eared Apollyon.
From Time Magazine Archive
He may be stern; he may be exacting; he may be ambitious yet; but his is the sternness of the warrior Greatheart, who guards his pilgrim convoy from the onslaught of Apollyon.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
