centaur
Example Sentences
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No one can convince her otherwise, and she decides to win her spouse back with an enchanted robe that the dying centaur Nessus told her was a love charm.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
For their investigations, the research team was allowed to take five small samples from the back of the centaur head.
From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024
Sagittarius is generally depicted as the Archer, a centaur holding a bow.
From Scientific American • Aug. 4, 2023
I gasped with delight when a tail-swishing centaur stepped onstage and couldn’t help but scream at the sight of cloaked Dementors flying above my seat.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2022
“My people speak of her,” the centaur said.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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