gorgon

Example Sentences

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In truth, having a man portray Lady B. as a drag gorgon is hardly daring—I have seen more men than women in the part.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

Instead of an evil monster, Haynes’s Medusa is a beloved gorgon sister with a keen intellect and a curiosity about the human world.

From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2023

I knew I wasn’t a gorgon, but I guessed that if 10 strangers were to look at a photo of me, probably about four or five of them would find me attractive.

From The Guardian • Sep. 17, 2016

A Tony nominee for Mr. Durang’s “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” she here takes her bravura comic persona to savage new extremes, and yet somehow without turning Paige into a cackling gorgon.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2015

He wondered if gorgon blood could cure basilisk poison...

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan