gorgon
Example Sentences
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In truth, having a man portray Lady B. as a drag gorgon is hardly daring—I have seen more men than women in the part.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
Instead of an evil monster, Haynes’s Medusa is a beloved gorgon sister with a keen intellect and a curiosity about the human world.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2023
I knew I wasn’t a gorgon, but I guessed that if 10 strangers were to look at a photo of me, probably about four or five of them would find me attractive.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 17, 2016
A Tony nominee for Mr. Durang’s “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” she here takes her bravura comic persona to savage new extremes, and yet somehow without turning Paige into a cackling gorgon.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2015
The first time he’d seen the gorgon, posing as a Bargain Mart greeter with a big green button that read: Welcome!
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
