How to Use Babylon in a Sentence

Babylon

noun
  • Christopher, 64, is a contractor from West Babylon, New York.
    Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2024
  • But over the next few years, the hype around Babylon just kept growing.
    WIRED, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The Babylon star looked a vision in pink — and polka dots!
    Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 28 June 2023
  • Click here to learn more about Musk's connections with the Babylon Bee.
    Kassy Dillon, Fox News, 7 Apr. 2023
  • This was at a soft opening of the Babylon LA store in Hollywood.
    Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Some of them will venture further into the Slabs, but most of them will turn around and head back to Babylon.
    Jonah Gercke, SPIN, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Call it the reverse Babylon — silent pictures are back!
    James Grebey, Vulture, 12 May 2023
  • This isn’t another Voodoo Lounge or Bridges to Babylon.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2023
  • While the Babylon actor may be an A-lister, his roots can be traced back to the crossroads of America.
    Perri Ormont Blumberg, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The rivers here, some scholars say, fed the fabled hanging gardens of Babylon and converged at the place described in the Bible as the Garden of Eden.
    Alissa J. Rubin, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2023
  • The people who migrated to Babylon attempted to build a tower that would reach to the sky.
    Joan Taylor, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Wilde appeared in 2022’s Babylon, which Robbie starred in.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2024
  • When we’re finally hit with the revelation of who the killer is, it’s supposed to be the Babylon heart of darkness.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 26 June 2024
  • Zedekiah was forced to watch his sons killed and was then blinded, bound, and taken to Babylon as a prisoner.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 31 Dec. 2023
  • Careful records of lunar and solar eclipses are one of the greatest legacies of ancient Babylon.
    Rebecca Boyle, TIME, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The Babylon star’s bright red manicure added a pop of color to the monochrome look, along with her silky blonde tresses — styled in loose waves — and glossy reddish pink lip!
    Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 14 June 2023
  • This year, attacks have been reported off Fire Island, Quogue, and Babylon.
    Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 2023
  • But in a joint statement, Babylon Berlin‘s producers reassured the show’s fans.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 June 2023
  • The Babylon cast member eventually moved to Hollywood, but the rest of his family stayed in the Midwest.
    Skyler Trepel, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2024
  • But nine months ago, the creator of the award-winning space drama teased a second secret Babylon 5 project — one that would feature every surviving member of the main cast.
    Sean Hollister, The Verge, 3 May 2023
  • But with Babylon Berlin coming to an end — a fifth season of the series, which hopes to begin production this year, is expected to be the last — X Filme is looking to return to its roots.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2024
  • Back in ancient Babylon, Jewish scribes might have re-imagined a popular goddess as a Jewish heroine.
    Esther Brownsmith, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2024
  • De Ramon supported Pitt at the premiere of Babylon and the afterparty in December 2022.
    Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Musk also boosted a deepfake ad made by Babylon Bee targeting Newsom.
    Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Though the theorem is named for the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras, some historians believe it was known in Babylon around 1,000 years earlier.
    Leila Sloman, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Straczynski has continued expanding the story of Babylon 5, a five-mile long space station seen as neutral ground for various alien species to interact amid the backdrop of the threat of war.
    Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2023
  • Pierced ears, jewelry, and makeup—all those garish trappings of Babylon—were forbidden.
    Safiya Sinclair, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • Then, over a martial riddim, comes not a standard chant-down of Babylon, but a testimonial about battling inner darkness.
    Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Worse, one of Hoxton’s star investments, Babylon Health, imploded in August 2023, two years after going public.
    Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The scholarship is funded, in part, by the Babylon family in honor of Eaton’s extensive contributions to our community.
    Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 27 Apr. 2024

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