myrmidon
Example Sentences
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He served on board MV Myrmidon, part of the task force dispatched to liberate the Falkland Islands after the Argentinean invasion in 1982.
From BBC
Aeschylus’s lost The Myrmidons also appeared to have had sexual and romantic love, between Achilles and Patroclus, at its heart.
From The Guardian
Grassy knolls teemed with minotaurs, cyborgs, warlocks, Myrmidons, figures clothed only in metallic body paint or Pan-like ivy tendrils.
From New York Times
For years they'd been repelling Myrmidons while listening to their leaders tell them to just sit it out and eventually the Greeks would go away.
From BBC
Yet, the longlisting of Eng's previous book five years ago led to Myrmidon starting to be taken seriously as a force to be reckoned with.
From The Guardian
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.