centaur

Example Sentences

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She also introduced him to telenovelas and their “hot dudes who looked like centaurs.”

From Los Angeles Times

For reasons that have yet to be explained, parts of the centaur head are coated with a thin brown film, as are several other marble fragments from the Parthenon.

From Science Daily

In another hall, art students sketched a sculpture of a centaur from the Parthenon Marbles.

From New York Times

Sagittarius is generally depicted as the Archer, a centaur holding a bow.

From Scientific American

Mythical hybrid beasts such as mermaids, centaurs and chimeras testify to our enduring fascination with the plasticity of biological form: the idea that natural organisms can mutate or be reconfigured.

From Scientific American