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

The lake has many species, including sexually reproducing frogs, water fleas that multiply by parthenogenesis, hydra that multiply by budding, and sponges that multiply by fragmentation.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

He rolled to one side as all eight hydra heads spit acid, turning the floor where he’d been standing into a steaming crater of melted stone.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan