How to Use odyssey in a Sentence

odyssey

noun

• The story is about the emotional odyssey experienced by a teenage girl.
• Once free of the camp, the greatest threats of their odyssey were hunger and men.
  — Ronald C. Rosbottom, WSJ, 5 May 2021
• To reach the location on the edge of town is an odyssey.
  — Jennifer Weil, WWD, 20 Sep. 2024
• But the bus broke down, turning the trip into a two-day odyssey.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 8 June 2022
• Promising that Sanna’s odyssey, on and off the ice, is far from over.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 16 Mar. 2024
• For now, most of them are simply waiting to take the next step in their odyssey.
  — New York Times, 25 Sep. 2021
• There are a few takeaways from my covid odyssey in the Persian Gulf.
  — Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2022
• In the shadow of two buttes, Alex Cobb’s four-month odyssey came full circle.
  — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2024
• Star Wars isn’t the only space odyssey that’s inspired epic Lego sets.
  — Gabrielle Hondorp, Popular Mechanics, 9 Jan. 2023
• And that led me on this 27-year odyssey that only ended last week.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Aug. 2022
• The move to pass zoning reform has been a yearslong odyssey with the twists and turns of a screenplay.
  — New York Times, 26 Aug. 2021
• The three-hour odyssey, defined by great stillness, is one of the most audacious films of the year.
  — Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 11 July 2024
• Right now, this odyssey can’t be outsourced to the AI assistants on the market.
  — Kathy Pham, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2024
• For Johnson, the journey to his dream job was more of an odyssey on a fast-food budget.
  — Marcus Fuller, Star Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021
• It was screened for buyers last March, a key milestone after a two-decade odyssey to get it to the screen.
  — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2024
• Charlene's return is the latest step in a ten-month long odyssey.
  — Peter Mikelbank, PEOPLE.com, 12 Mar. 2022
• Davis’s odyssey comes, as these things tend to, with an origin story.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Mar. 2022
• Downhill to one’s shrink, then an uphill struggle on the walk back: a very Eliot-like odyssey.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
• The book becomes a kind of odyssey, with Sergeyich, driving his trusty old Lada, in the role of a Ukrainian Odysseus.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
• This is the startup odyssey, a voyage not for the timid but for the bold who dare to dream differently.
  — Ranghan Venkatraman, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
• Slothrop’s weird odyssey, and the novel’s seeming chaos, are ordered by one thing: the rocket.
  — John Semley, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023
• All told, the trip to campus — now an odyssey of trains, buses, and subways — takes as long as two hours.
  — Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2022
• The entire album has this mind-melting funk-rock odyssey style that’s so unique.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 30 Dec. 2022
• Lalo’s German odyssey pits him against Casper, one of the members of Werner’s team at the dig site.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2022
• The next two episodes follow his odyssey through the American Southwest.
  — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2023
• Because Russert has come back from his odyssey in a very Washington way: with a book to sell.
  — Kara Voght, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
• Give this surfer odyssey extra points for extra stakes.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2022
• The odyssey began at the former fishing village of Badachro, a 70-mile drive west from the city of Inverness.
  — Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2023
• Thank you to everyone who has been a part of this incredible odyssey.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2024
• The Magic Mountain is an odyssey confined to one place, a novel of ideas like no other, and a masterpiece of literary modernism.
  — George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024