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"Achilles" in a Sentence (14 examples)
The first baseman is the Achilles heel of our team.
Achilles was an ancient Greek hero.
Apart from his heel, Achilles was invulnerable.
About four years ago my Achilles tendon started to hurt and I was told it was Achilles tendonitis.
Speaking in public is my Achilles heel; I'm simply too shy.
When Achilles would draw his sword to slay Agamemnon, Athena, invisible to all else, holds him back by a lock of hair. Here Homer shows us the gods as the psychology of ancient Greece.
I am called the son of Achilles, Neoptolemos.
No one of the Greeks was better in battles than Achilles.
Achilles defeated Hector, but after a short time he himself was killed in battle.
Enraged by these things as well, she kept the Trojans, all that were left of the Greeks and indomitable Achilles, far away from Latium, tossed by the wide ocean; they wandered for many years, driven by the Fates, all around the seas.
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Achilles! a drayman, a porter, a very camel.
Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber’d, heavenly goddess, sing!
If once the lamentation is heard, it will ring out again, of the short-lived Achilles, of the leaf-like change and vicissitude of the human race, of the decay of the heroic age.
In the last third of the Iliad, Achilles’ beloved companion, Patroklos, and his bitter enemy, Hektor, die wearing Achilles’ armor, their deaths prefiguring Achilles’ own.
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