How to Use Hades in a Sentence

Hades

noun

• But Quinn's Hades, like Old Scratch, gets some of the best lines.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2023
• Death was not a final stop but rather part of a process by which the soul went to Hades.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• In a way, Cerberus was not just the guard dog of Hades, but of Earth itself.
  — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2023
• Back in 2020, Forward Air was hacked by a group known as Hades.
  — Levon Gasparian, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• The wait is over: Hades II launches in early access today.
  — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 8 May 2024
• Fewer still ride that lightning all the way to Cooperstown, through Hades and back, spitting nails with every step.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 23 Jan. 2024
• Harris sourced inspiration from the underworld as Hades, while his husband pulled from the deep blue and dressed as Poseidon, the god of the sea.
  — Lydia Price, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2023
• In order to save the world’s harvests, Zeus convinced Hades to allow Persephone to return to her mother for most of the year and return to the underworld in the winter.
  — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 9 May 2024
• So the current heat wave, which is a reference to sort of Greek mythology to this ferryman who carried the dead across the waters of the Hades, the space that separates the living and the dead.
  — Mark Sovel, USA TODAY, 22 July 2023
• By comparison with the immortal gods, even the loftiest mortals are losers in the long run (as Achilles realizes in Hades).
  — Robert Pogue Harrison, The New York Review of Books, 15 Feb. 2024
• Olympian legends — including Hades and the thunder god Zeus — now rule the Island in otherworldly rage.
  — Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 8 Mar. 2024
• Meanwhile, Persephone makes her usual springtime visit, drawing the attention of her lover, Hades, to the scenario in the nightclub.
  — Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
• The complex, fraught relationship between Persephone and Hades provides one of the two main storylines in Hadestown.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 18 July 2023
• Fortnite also hinted at the Chains of Hades being another power added on later in the season.
  — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2024
• Captain Minnie eventually finds the ship’s commemorative coin with Hades, and Hercules helps her to get it back.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 20 Mar. 2024
• The $69 combination yields a feast for two, considering the meal gets rounded out with clear and comforting beef-radish soup, corn under a cloak of molten mozzarella and steamed eggs, light as clouds (but hot as Hades, so watch out).
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
• Myth: Persephone, daughter of Zeus and Demeter, was gathering flowers when Hades burst from the underworld in his black chariot and abducted her.
  — Jay Katsir, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• More than three years after its initial release, the masochistic psychodrama that is Hades still has the gaming community in a kinky stranglehold — so much so that Netflix is getting in on the action.
  — Vulture, 11 Nov. 2023
• The housekeeper alleges Brown ordered his security to grab Hades and other dogs on the property and remove them from the premises before police arrived.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2023
• Alongside this story, set in the twin backdrops of a struggling town and a downtrodden underworld, another love story parallels the leads: the mythic, otherworldly, and downright epic romance of the Greek gods Hades and Persephone.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 28 Nov. 2023
• His cult of vegetarian geometry enthusiasts believed that the fava bean held the souls of the dead, or that their hollow stems provided elevator service up from Hades.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 13 May 2023
• Blood of Zeus continues to impress with smart twists on classic stories (its take on the relationship between Persephone and Hades being a particular highlight) and fantastic animation.
  — Matt Kamen, WIRED, 22 June 2024
• In this version, the sensible Eurydice has fallen in love with the idealistic Orpheus but longs for the financial stability guaranteed in the titular underworld — a factory town overseen by Hades and resented by his wife, Persephone.
  — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024