cyclopean

Example Sentences

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Excavations conducted on and around the Cyclopean terrace revealed an elite district composed of plazas, paved roads and administrative buildings, with large megara, or great halls used for formal events, at the center.

From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2022

Like the obsidian vaults of my drowned Cyclopean city, his positions are blurred and fuzzy.

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2016

Some sort of gun-metal gray canister has been squashed and made useless, its flattened valve staring out like a Cyclopean eye.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2015

But it was hard to see them – the pink splotches, the Cyclopean dolls – and resist the idea that Hornby had stepped down from exemplary model-making and into a bucket of tat.

From The Guardian • Sep. 28, 2012

He stopped, squinting at me with Cyclopean irritation.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison