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• Astronomers believe planets might form in this dead star's disk, like the mythical Phoenix rising up out of the ashes.From the entry phoenix
• Cf. Sandman, a mythical character in European folklore who puts people to sleep and encourages and inspires beautiful dreams by sprinkling magical sand onto their eyes.From the entry sand
• So far, no evidence has been found to definitively link the Erlitou to the mythical Xia.2016 August 4, Sarah Kaplan, “Legends say China began in a great flood. Scientists just found evidence that the flood was real.”, in The…. From the entry Xia
• The spectacular conjunction of Venus and Mars gave rise to a myriad of mythical interpretations.2011, Starf*cker […] , Ev Cochrane, →ISBN, page 140. From the entry conjunction
• The Hermesians were Gnostics whose mythical leader was Hermes Trismegistos (meaning “Mercury, the Thrice Great”).2006, Yoel Natan, Moon-o-theism, Volume II of II, page 301. From the entry Hermesian
• Many Singaporeans have come to accept this mythical creature as a quintessential symbol of Singapore.2002, Can-Seng Ooi, Cultural Tourism and Tourism Cultures: The Business of Mediating Experiences in Copenhagen and Singapore, Copenhagen…. From the entry merlion
• The mythical clan belief is the only culprit of the misery in Somalia.1998 November 1, Abdiwali M Ahmed, “Would it be a sin...”, in soc.culture.somalia (Usenet). From the entry somalism
• Mythical country village created by broadcaster Gillie Potter, who regularly reported via radio of the doings theredown.1985, Denis Gifford, The Golden Age of Radio, London: B. T. Batsford, page 116. From the entry theredown
• Did some mythical giantess in the creation of this earth playfully prepare her desserts by the plainfuls?1984, Irma Tam Soong, Chinese-American Refugee: A World War II Memoir, page 59. From the entry plainful
• The arrangement of pipes symbolizes the folded wings of the mythical phoenix, whose cry the shō's sound is said to represent.2015, J. Kenneth Moore, Jayson Kerr Dobney, E Bradley Strachen-Scherer, Musical Instruments: Highlights of The Metropolitan Museum of Art…. From the entry sho
• Tell me more about this mythical vegetarian KBBQ 'straunt.2013 December 17, Kristie Rohwedder, “'Vanderpump Rules' Keeps Getting better”, in Bustle, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2020. From the entry 'straunt
• Thomas Jefferson has a nearly mythical association with garden peas.2011, Sheri Castle, The New Southern Garden Cookbook. From the entry garden pea
• The aspect of progenitiveness leaves space for the interpretation of the mythical bear as either male or female.2008, Harald Haarmann, Introducing the Mythological Crescent. From the entry progenitiveness
• Of the tiny minority that had life at all, some would really have mythical creatures like unicorns, werewolves and animagi.2007, Rodney D. Holder, “Is the universe designed?”, in Denis Alexander, editor, Has Science Killed God? The Faraday Papers on Science and…. From the entry animagus
• Vasu's archetypal self is the extroller of a negative truth, or antitruth; "the mythical structure" becomes its primary technique.2001, Amar Nath Prasad, Studies in Indian English Fiction, page 33. From the entry antitruth
• By the mythical name, this is a bulette.1997-04-07, Dan Davis <DAV...@docker.com>, "Re: Mithical Cretures Hits Beast Wars.", alt.toys.transformers, <33498C02.17C0@docker.com>#1/1. From the entry bulette
• William Steig's wonderfully scrabbly cartoon figures illustrate a book of poems about animals real (including people) and mythical.1988, Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books - Volume 42, page 54. From the entry scrabbly
• There was also one of a lady attired as an ancient Greek warrior, presumably the mythical Queen Hippolyte.1984, A[rthur] Bertram Chandler, “The Last Amazon”, in John Grimes: Reserve Commodore […], [New York]: SFBC Science Fiction, published…. From the entry know on which side one's bread is buttered
• The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the purely hypothetical.1974, Stanisław Lem, translated by Michael Kandel, The Cyberiad. From the entry nonexist
• One of these is the mythical economic power of homosexuals.1974 February 2, John Collis, Guy Hocquenghem, Joe Interrante, Mike Riegle, Charley Shively, Raphael Shively, Lionel Soukaz, “The…. From the entry person in the streets
• The heraldic tiger is a mythical beast, quite unlike a real tiger which is described in heraldry as a Bengal tiger.1968, Charles MacKinnon of Dunakin, The Observer's Book of Heraldry, page 69. From the entry tiger
• Blue-eyed women he believed there were in Kashmir, but here was the mythical Englishry of fair hair as well.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 50. From the entry Englishry
• The educational system and conduct of life is based upon a mythical assumption which has been endured all too long.1905, Philip Henry Erbés, Education Brained; Or, Education from the Standpoint of the Brain and Brain-cells, page 7. From the entry facultized
• Grafting Tír na nÓg, the mythical land of eternal youth in Irish mythology, onto the Greek tragic tale is a stark and unexpected move.2020, Isabelle Torrance, “Post-Ceasefire Antigones and Northern Ireland”, in Isabelle Torrance, Donncha O'Rourke, editors, Classics and…. From the entry Tír na nÓg
• Under the spray of water was a statue of the so-called merlion, the mythical beast that was the symbol of the tourist industry here.2016, Karen Harper, chapter 1, in Chasing Shadows (A South Shore Novel), Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin MIRA, →ISBN. From the entry merlion
• It’s a small sculpture in the form of a bird with the head of a woman, a type of mythical creature known as a kinnari.2015 September 24, Ken Johnson, “Review: ‘Philippine Gold: Treasures of Forgotten Kingdoms’”, in New York Times. From the entry kinnari
• Consequently, psychology, by trying to penetrate the problem of anxiety to its extraconscious roots, must encounter mythical symbolism and the problem of its hidden meaning.1989, Paul Diel, Fear and Anxiety: Primary Triggers of Survival and Evolution, page 44. From the entry extraconscious
• As veterans these fullmooned beach bacchanalia, we can swear before any and all tourists that the little fish is neither mysteriaous nor mythical.1960, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction - Volume 19, page 87. From the entry fullmooned
• It is said to be the birthplace of Diao Chan, a mythical figure who is known as one of the four legendary beauties of ancient China.2018 April 27, Javier C. Hernández, Iris Zhao, “Knife Attack at Chinese Middle School Leaves Seven Children Dead”, in The New York Times…. From the entry Mizhi
• In many discussions the concepts of big and little science are presented in near mythical terms — terms that cloud the complexity of the issues involved.1994, A Space Physics Paradox: Why Has Increased Funding Been Accompanied By Decreased Effectiveness In The Conduct Of Space Physics…. From the entry little science
• The Snoqualmies are said to have carried the designation "people of the moon,' and also "crowned with snow." They believed themselves to have been transformed from the mythical Beaver.1992, Robert H. Ruby, John A. Brown, A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest (The Civilization of the American Indian…. From the entry Snoqualmies
• What a fabulous beast was the mythical unicorn — with its horse's head and hoofs, and a single horn, the alicorn, growing out of its forehead.1982 May-June, F. G. Walton Smith, “The Unicorn that Goes to Sea”, in Sea Frontiers: Bulletin of the International Oceanographic…. From the entry alicorn
• In no case does citizenship, or burghership, appear to rest upon the basis of a real or assumed community of descent from a single real or mythical progenitor.1902, John Fiske, “The Federal Unioin”, in Harpers. From the entry burghership
• This may sound strange, considering that the tail of these mythical marine creatures is not particularly practical for city life, yet mermaidcore is indeed the fashion trend of the moment.2023 January 12, “Mermaidcore to the forefront”, in StarLifestyle (The Star). From the entry mermaidcore
• These concerns are illustrated by the desire of the aforementioned mom-bloggers to curate extraordinary adult memories for their children by fabricating a mythical period of wide-eyed wonder and magical moments.2019 February 1, J. C. Garden, “Interrogating innocence: “Childhood” as exclusionary social practice”, in Childhood, volume 26, number 1…. From the entry fabricate
• Without the explanatory dimension, insights into concrete data regarding reality, the ethical, human life and relationships run the risk of shading off into a pseudometaphysics that is in fact mythical.2008, Andrew Beards, Method in Metaphysics: Lonergan and the Future of Analytical Philosophy, →ISBN. From the entry pseudometaphysics
• The Force being taken, he'll have to settle for The Glaive, a golden switchbladed boomerang that can do just about anything but salvage this $27 million mishmash of mythical cliches.1983, “Virgin Islands dive: Exploring the environment”, in Newsweek, volume 102, numbers 1-9, page 301. From the entry switchbladed

Meaning of mythical

1. adjective Existing in myth.
2. adjective Not real; false or fabricated.
3. adjective Very rare.

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Questions about mythical in a sentence

How do you use mythical in a sentence?

Mythical is used as an adjective. For example: “He told a story about a mythical dragon.”

What is a short sentence with mythical?

“By the mythical name, this is a bulette.”

What does mythical mean?

Mythical means existing in myth.