mammon

Example Sentences

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He built vast temples to Mammon, some of which, heavy with debt, collapsed in a heap.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

The couple safely fled with their three pets — cats Bird and Mammon and a dog, Dune — and a few belongings.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2025

Perhaps the Age of Mammon might be a better term.

From Washington Post • Oct. 2, 2017

He is in turn outdone by Brent Harris, preposterously attired and delightfully over the top as Sir Epicure Mammon, who dresses in gold and craves it, too.

From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2014

I know poetry is not dead, nor genius lost; nor has Mammon gained power over either, to bind or slay: they will both assert their existence, their presence, their liberty and strength again one day.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë