demigod

Example Sentences

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Cerberus, the guard of the underworld, is featured with Hercules, a reference to the heroic demigod’s 12th and final labor which involved capturing the hellhound.

From Washington Times

In place of demigods and antiheroes, women were his preferred orbit.

From New York Times

McShane’s unassuming appearance belies the power she wields in a culinary city like Los Angeles, where diners at some places tend to revere chefs as demigods.

From Los Angeles Times

Rather than play in the McCaw Hall pit, the musicians will be situated onstage, right in the midst of Wagner’s cosmos of “flawed gods, aspiring demigods and power-mad dwarves,” as Staufenbiel puts it.

From Seattle Times

“He is a person like us, not a god or a demigod.”

From New York Times