ogress
Example Sentences
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In the case of voracious Slapu, elders warn the children to come home before nightfall because of the ogress waiting in the woods skirting Port Gamble Bay.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 17, 2023
The ogress and the orphans do the ridding, with cleareyed ingenuity.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2022
“We believe that we came into existence when an ogress mated with a monkey. Is that possible?”
From Scientific American ● Apr. 10, 2019
The fatal mother – aka the witch, aka the ogress – is an aspect of motherhood itself.
From The Guardian ● May 14, 2010
No, she had never been the ogress he had thought her a year ago.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
