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How to use centaur in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun

Centaur means a mythical beast having a horse's body with a man's head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse. Example: “Other names for Advanced Chess include ‘cyborg’ and ‘centaur’ chess.”

Examples of centaur by meaning

nounA chess-playing team comprising a human player and a computer who work together.

  • Other names for Advanced Chess include ‘cyborg’ and ‘centaur’ chess.2018, James Bridle, New Dark Age: Technology, Knowledge and the End of the Future, Verso Books, →ISBN, page 159

nounA human and an AI who work together.

  • The first—termed “cyborgs” by the authors—intertwined with the AI, moulding, checking and refining its responses, while the second—“centaurs”—divided labour, handing off more AI-suited subtasks while focussing on their own areas of expertise.2023 November 11, John Burn-Murdoch, “Generative AI and white-collar jobs: reasons to be wary”, in FT Weekend (The FT View section)...
  • But the centaurs have arrived.2023 November 13, James Somers, “A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN
  • A centaur goes in circles if the human half doesn’t know what it’s doing.2025 October 26, Kwame Anthony Appiah, “The Age of De-Skilling”, in The Atlantic

More sentences with centaur

  • Labelled 'the most famous and wisest of all the centaurs' by one commentator, Chiron represented the acceptable face of centaurdom.2020, Sean Magee, In Praise of Famous Horses. From the entry centaurdom
  • Centaurs, elves, humans, satyrs, halflings, mémechares and brounies surrounded them on all sides, except the one they had come from.2018 May 26, Joel Puga, “Chapter 6 Faiths”, in The Godungava, Joel Puga. From the entry brownie
  • I suppose it isn't outside the realms of possibility that he'd just been off cottaging with some centaurs in the forest.2014, Sarah Lotz, The Three, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry camp
  • Robot centaurs are more awesome in a vacuum, but Obama riding a robot horse definitely pings the coolometer.2009 December 7, Drew Perron, “Re: CONTEST: High Concept # 5”, in rec.arts.comics.creative (Usenet). From the entry coolometer
  • Troll fights every Saturday, centaur roller derby Tuesday nights, zombie paintball every second Friday, unicorn jousting at Christmas and a dragonriding tournament in June.2017 October 10, Jessica Townsend, “Welcome to Nevermoor”, in Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow, Sydney, N.S.W.: Lothian, Hachette…. From the entry dragonriding
  • Only in modern America has Sagittarius been ignominiously turned into a teapot - although to most Americans, a teapot is as exotic as a centaur.1998, John H. Roger, “Origins of the ancient constellations: I. The Mesopotamian traditions”, in Journal of the British Astronomy…. From the entry teapot
  • September — the Balance poises the equinox; Scorpion gives an Octoberly nip; November's centaur Archer bends His bow, and lets an arrow slip.1985, John Heath-Stubbs, The Immolation of Aleph, page 87. From the entry Octoberly
  • And I saw werewolves, centaurs, tigers, leopards, hyenas, camelopards or giraffes, and oryges, a variety of Egyptian unicorn with certain features of the antelope.1936, The Complete Works of Doctor François Rabelais, translation of original by François Rabelais, page 797. From the entry oryges

Meaning of centaur

  1. noun A mythical beast having a horse's body with a man's head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse.
  2. noun One of a number of icy planetoids that orbit the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune.
  3. noun A chess-playing team comprising a human player and a computer who work together.

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Questions about centaur in a sentence

How do you use centaur in a sentence?
Centaur is used as a noun. For example: “Other names for Advanced Chess include ‘cyborg’ and ‘centaur’ chess.”
What is a short sentence with centaur?
“But the centaurs have arrived.”
What does centaur mean?
Centaur means a mythical beast having a horse's body with a man's head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse.

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