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How to use phoenix in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun, verb

Phoenix means a mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes. Example: “Astronomers believe planets might form in this dead star's disk, like the mythical Phoenix rising up out of the ashes.”

Examples of phoenix by meaning

nounAnything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed.

  • Astronomers believe planets might form in this dead star's disk, like the mythical Phoenix rising up out of the ashes.
  • Many of the legitimate nightclubs of today sprang like legalized phoenixes from the still-hot ashes of the speakeasies of prohibition days.1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 90

nounA Greek silver coin used briefly from 1828 to 1832, divided into 100 lepta.

  • The national currency, the phoenix, which had been established by Kapodistrias, was renamed after an ancient Greek coin, the drachma.2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 116

verbTo transfer assets from one company to another to dodge liability.

  • Australian Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Association CEO John Winter said phoenixing has been "endemic" for decades.2019 December 17, Noel Gladstone, Carrie Fellner, “Small business flattened by 'dodgy' builders in phoenixing epidemic”, in The Sydney...

More sentences with phoenix

  • Wine caps, and other tasty species like the phoenix oyster mushroom, can be grown this way.2023, Liv Sisson, Fungi of Aotearoa: A Curious Forager's Field Guide, Penguin Random House New Zealand, →ISBN. From the entry companion planting
  • I like birds and dragons and combined the two into my birdsona, Blaze the phoenix dragoness.2020 December 14, @cuddly_sasha, Twitter. From the entry birdsona
  • Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse.2012 January, Donald Worster, “A Drier and Hotter Future”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, New Haven, Conn.: Sigma Xi, the…. From the entry storm
  • Phoenix hopped off his bike and extended his hand to me, but I refused.2008, Ellen Schreiber, “The Dungeon”, in The Coffin Club (Vampire Kisses; 5), Katherine Tegen Books, →ISBN, page 169. From the entry dungeon mistress
  • Phoenix:It must have been too hectic that night to clean up.2007 March 16, Capcom Production Studio 4, quoting Phoenix, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice for All, Europe: Capcom, →OCLC…. From the entry hectic
  • Pards and tigers disport themselves gorgeously, dragons and phoenixes augurise in painted pomp.1999, Siu-kit Wong, Allan Chung-hang Lo, Kwong-tai Lam, The Book of Literary Design. From the entry augurise
  • 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
  • Phoenix: Moe seems to be a voracious reader.2007 March 16, Capcom Production Studio 4, quoting Phoenix, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice for All, Europe: Capcom, →OCLC…. From the entry voracious
  • Her favourite animal is Feng-huang, the Chinese phoenix which is the personification of the primordial force of the heavens and the symbol of immortality.2016, Pamela Ball, “The Physical Practice of Tao”, in The Essence of Tao, London: Arcturus Publishing Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 172. From the entry feng-huang
  • The phoenix has been associated by some scholars with two other sacred birds, or bird-being, the Hindu Garuda and the Chinese feng-huang.2008, “Phoenix (Egyptian and Greek)”, in Josepha Sherman, editor, Storytelling: An Encyclopedia of Mythology and Folklore, volume 2, M. E.…. From the entry feng-huang
  • Whilst some amongst us have risen like a sartorial phoenix from the ashes of lockdown, others (myself included) have experienced more of a glow-down than a glow-up.2020 December 11, Amy Sedghi, “How a session with Katie Holmes’ stylist changed the way I dress – without buying anything new”, in The…. From the entry glow-down
  • The healing power of tears has never been a characteristic of the phoenix in its long development of reception and it is obviously a modern or even ‘Rowlingian’ invention.2015, Dagmar Hofmann, “The Phoenix, the Werewolf and the Centaur: The Reception of Mythical Beasts in the Harry Potter Novels and their…. From the entry Rowlingian
  • Imagine a stadiumful of Millwall supporters compressed into one streamlined, gold-feathered body seven feet tall at the wing, and you're mind's-eyeball to eyeball with a phoenix, age two minutes.2012, Tom Holt, chapter 4, in Open Sesame, Orbit, →ISBN. From the entry stadiumful

Meaning of phoenix

  1. noun A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.
  2. noun Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed.
  3. noun A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies; a fenghuang.

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Questions about phoenix in a sentence

How do you use phoenix in a sentence?
Phoenix is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Astronomers believe planets might form in this dead star's disk, like the mythical Phoenix rising up out of the ashes.”
What is a short sentence with phoenix?
“Phoenix: Moe seems to be a voracious reader.”
What does phoenix mean?
Phoenix means a mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.

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