How to Use gargoyle in a Sentence

gargoyle

noun

• Villeneuve is adept at staging grand-scale battles, but the movie’s best set piece is the climactic tooth-and-nail face-off between Paul and this grinning gargoyle.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Feb. 2024
• There was, on the porch at the feet of the dead bird, a hunched gargoyle.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2017
• The 16 gargoyle guardians on the roof are five feet tall.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 23 June 2018
• There are two gargoyles near the back of St. Mary’s Church on the steeple tower.
  — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 16 June 2019
• The gargoyle climbs the wobbling spire and the seat of government’s pants are on fire.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 24 May 2020
• All that’s left is to shame the universe of ghouls and gargoyles publicly.
  — Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 24 Jan. 2018
• The most famous gargoyle hunter was the art dealer Ivan Karp.
  — Julie Lasky, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2017
• And then the gargoyle piped up and said something ridiculous.
  — Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 3 May 2023
• His only friends are the statues and gargoyles in the belfry, who come to life in his mind.
  — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• In French, the word for gargoyle—gargouille—has origins in the words for throat and gurgle.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2020
• Some stretch downward, jaws agape; these are gargoyles, who vomit out the runoff of the rain (above).
  — Bruce Dale, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
• And the features of Notre Dame's famous gargoyles looked as worn away as the face of Voldemort.
  — Vivienne Walt / Paris, Time, 27 July 2017
• Of course, the Vatican has needed new gargoyles for a while now.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 4 Aug. 2017
• The antenna dishes on top of the Event Horizon are all based on the gargoyle clusters on the top of Notre-Dame.
  — Vulture, 18 Aug. 2022
• In the series, a nocturnal species known as gargoyles are stone during the day but come alive at night.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 16 Oct. 2023
• Harvey was pressed right up against the fence now, the slats coming to his chin, only his head poking over, like a gargoyle.
  — Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
• Many of its snarling gargoyles are so corroded that they have been whisked out of sight, replaced by PVC pipes.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 1 Sep. 2017
• Still alive in modern times, Frankenstein’s creature becomes caught in the middle, as gargoyles and demons wage war for the souls of mankind.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• The new ink includes gargoyles, skeletons and archways across his rib case and stomach area.
  — Mitchell Peters, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2017
• In one clearing, a gargoyle’s unspooled tongue made a children’s slide.
  — Henry Wismayer, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2018
• The sale included all the statues, gargoyles, and even arcade games on the property.
  — Megan Friedman, ELLE Decor, 28 Sep. 2017
• The premise involved gargoyle statues moved from a castle in Scotland to modern-day New York.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2023
• Every feature is visible, from the narrative reliefs above the main doors to the gargoyles and spires high above, to the color and textures of the stone.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
• There were laughing vipers, yapping gargoyles, salamanders fanning the fire with their breath, and monsters that sneezed in the smoke.
  — Ken Follett, Smithsonian, 15 Apr. 2019
• That year, more than 200 trick-or-treaters rapped their musical gargoyle door knocker.
  — Libby Solomon, baltimoresun.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• Even the cathedral’s famous gargoyles have suffered, their faces worn after centuries of wear and tear.
  — Chanel Vargas, Town & Country, 3 Aug. 2017
• One stands 4 feet tall and is dominated by a gargoyle-like face of a god with an open mouth, where offerings could be left.
  — Peter Saenger, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
• Spiderwebs and gargoyle-like figures add to the creepiness.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 19 Oct. 2021
• The gargoyles are approximately 2 feet by 2 feet and protrude about two feet out from the building.
  — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 16 June 2019
• In one photograph from that period, hundreds of vultures crowd a New Delhi dump and perch like gargoyles on the buildings that surround it.
  — Meera Subramanian, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024