gorgon

Example Sentences

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Mountain yam, bamboo pith and shoots, lotus seeds and gorgon fruit, which Yin says “looks like chickpeas, and tastes like tapioca,” all appear on his menu, too.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 18, 2025

Instead of an evil monster, Haynes’s Medusa is a beloved gorgon sister with a keen intellect and a curiosity about the human world.

From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2023

I knew I wasn’t a gorgon, but I guessed that if 10 strangers were to look at a photo of me, probably about four or five of them would find me attractive.

From The Guardian • Sep. 17, 2016

A Tony nominee for Mr. Durang’s “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” she here takes her bravura comic persona to savage new extremes, and yet somehow without turning Paige into a cackling gorgon.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2015

He passed Mrs. O’Leary, who looked up curiously with a gorgon wriggling in her mouth.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan