ferryman

Example Sentences

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The characters in that piece included Charon, the ferryman to the underworld, and this is the figure that Baye & Asa borrow.

From New York Times

As an employee of a Manhattan establishment that catered to traveling assassins, Charon — named after the ferryman of Hades in Greek mythology — was the soul of discretion.

From New York Times

Proctor Bennett is the ferryman who shuttles the bodies back and forth between the islands, and though he is by all counts “successful,” he is haunted by a recurring dream.

From New York Times

A countertenor role, sung at the Met by John Holliday, in which the singer appears in different guises, can be seen as something like an angel of death or ferryman.

From New York Times

Patient outcomes varied depending on whether you asked the officer who lost fighters, the ferryman who shuttled the sick, the doctor who treated invalids or the adjutant who buried bodies.

From Scientific American