How to Use the Garden of Eden in a Sentence
the Garden of Eden
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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 -
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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