hydra

Example Sentences

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"In 20 years, and despite the resolute efforts of our police officers, gendarmes, judges, teachers and elected officials, the antisemitic hydra has kept advancing," he said.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

“It’s like a hydra, like a three-headed monster!” she says with a hearty laugh.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2025

This suggests that evolution plays around with these chemical pathways, altering them over the hundreds of millions of years since the hydra and human lineages diverged from each other on the evolutionary tree.

From Scientific American • Jun. 16, 2023

"Greek football is a hydra with many heads. You cut one, others emerge."

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2022

She also kept a fight from breaking out between the children of Mars and the children of Ares over the best way to kill a hydra.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan