How to Use the Garden of Eden in a Sentence

the Garden of Eden

noun phrase
  • In the Bible, the Euphrates was even mentioned as one of the four rivers that served the Garden of Eden.
    Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
  • What was lost in the Garden of Eden will be restored in the Kingdom of God.
    James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • This is why the Seychelles is at times referred to as the Garden of Eden.
    Marcia Desanctis, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2023
  • 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
  • Does the Garden of Eden allegory seem plausible to you?
    and David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Your tomato need not be plucked from the Garden of Eden to be good: Just try to find one that came from a farmer during its high season and not a big-box supermarket in winter.
    Eric Kim, New York Times, 19 July 2023
  • The film proceeds to offer its own riff on the fall from innocence: humanity’s expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
    Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 29 July 2023
  • Suddenly self-conscious, Jem appears to shrink into herself, like Eve in the Garden of Eden, discovering the shame of her own body.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 12 May 2023
  • The Christian creation myth, for instance, conjures the Garden of Eden, a lush paradise where food was plentiful and pleasure abounded.
    Naomi Huffman, The Atlantic, 10 July 2024
  • After Adam was created and let loose in the Garden of Eden, his original job was human label-maker.
    Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
  • The most famous garden, certainly in literature, is the Garden of Eden.
    Jessica Ferri, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
  • Adam and Eve’s cautionary tale of humanity’s fall from grace in the Garden of Eden could provide a patron the public veneer of biblical piety.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Adam and Eve’s cautionary tale of humanity’s fall from grace in the Garden of Eden could provide a patron the public veneer of biblical piety.
    Christopher Knight, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Their symbolic power has a dark and thrilling history, beginning with their debut in the Garden of Eden, then turning up in Medusa’s coiffure, and even being found guilty for the murder of Cleopatra.
    Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2024
  • And there are those who may view Coppola’s insistence that the Garden of Eden can be dialectically willed into existence as naive.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2024
  • Season 1 took a deep dive into the pair's unlikely, millennia-spanning relationship, stretching from the Garden of Eden to Shakespearean England.
    Devan Coggan, EW.com, 20 July 2023

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