griffin

Example Sentences

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On a stone table supported by carved griffins, fragments of other decorative stonework are placed.

From Washington Post

The coin reunites all 10 beasts in one design, including a lion, griffin, falcon, bull, yale, greyhound, dragon, unicorn and a horse.

From BBC

You rallied under a blue banner with a griffin or some such creature on it; they rallied under a green banner with a dragon on it.

From The Guardian

At first she believed it to be some kind of mythical creature, a California version of a minotaur or a griffin.

From Los Angeles Times

An immediate mandate was that our tyrannosaurs do not do the open-mouthed, million-lions-volume roaring so ubiquitous elsewhere, and that the pterosaurs do not screech like mythical griffins.

From Scientific American