How to Use Demeter in a Sentence

Demeter

noun
  • If basic black tea is more their type, Demeter offers that too.
    — Jené Luciani Sena, Fox News, 20 Dec. 2024
  • With therapy, Demeter has relearned how to think and talk about food.
    — Audrey Richardson and Aurora Sousanis, Detroit Free Press, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Her presence dictates the seasons as Demeter brings around the harvest when her daughter is with her.
    — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2024
  • This post contains spoilers for The Last Voyage of the Demeter.
    — Megan McCluskey, Time, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The cast from Bram Stoker’s novel are transposed to space junkers, who come across the derelict spaceship Demeter.
    — Vulture, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Beauty in a new body Dana Demeter was 5 years old when a doctor told her mother that Demeter was overweight.
    — Audrey Richardson and Aurora Sousanis, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Or operatic Demeter, plunging the whole world into winter with her sorrow.
    — Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 29 July 2023
  • For more information about Demeter or other animals in need of a home, please visit the shelter’s website.
    — Tj MacIas, Kansas City Star, 11 July 2024
  • The Last Voyage of the Demeter offers an inside look at all the horrors that play out on the ship throughout its final journey.
    — Megan McCluskey, Time, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Her writing is lucid and her tone is warm; in her telling, certain myths, such as the one about Demeter and Persephone, are powerfully moving.
    — Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2023
  • This powerful Greek name actually stems from Demeter, a Greek goddess.
    — Lydia Wang, Parents, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Starstruck by Olympian celebrity, Persephone rebels against her mother Demeter and sneaks into a party at the Acropolis.
    — The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
  • The Last Voyage of the Demeter is a threadbare high-concept story given the high-thread-count treatment — a lovely piece of luxury pulp.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2023
  • In Greek mythology, Virgo the Virgin is the daughter of Demeter, the goddess of the harvest and fertility of the earth.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 18 May 2025
  • In Greek mythology, Chloe was an epithet of the goddess Demeter, the goddess of agriculture and fertility.
    — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 8 Jan. 2025
  • There are few biodynamic wine producers in Portugal certified by Demeter and/or Biodyvin.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Each season has its own cultural harbinger — modern-day versions of Demeter, Eurus, or Boreas — who symbolize a turning tide in time’s great march.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Vampire movies are, of course, a dime a dozen (the most recent major studio example being The Last Voyage of the Demeter), but few are as gleefully anarchic as this one.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Sometimes these goddess figures are based on specific ancient deities, such as Persephone, Demeter and Hekate, and sometimes they are worshipped more generally as representations of various phases of life.
    — Alyssa Beall, USA TODAY, 13 May 2023

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