mythic

Example Sentences

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In Borneo, a mythic spider brings forth life by feeding a tree; in Polynesia, spider-silk ladders connect heaven and earth.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

This photo shoot experience was mythic; it was sort of a site-specific intervention.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

Griffin even made for himself an industry town called Frostproof—a canny, if defiant, advertising play, named years prior, after the town had survived the mythic 1895 freeze without much issue.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

They are both places with a mythic allure that nonetheless draw the same kinds of criticisms.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

Mars has become a kind of mythic arena onto which we have projected our earthly hopes and fears.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan