Olympus

//əˈlɪmpəs//

"Olympus" in a Sentence (11 examples)

In 776 B.C., the first Olympic Games were held at the foot of Mount Olympus to honor the Greeks' chief god, Zeus.

Olympus? Isn't that where Greek gods hang out or something?

Every Olympus has a byroad to its top.

Mount Olympus is the highest mountain in the solar system.

Mars has some of the largest volcanoes in the solar system; Olympus Mons is over 600 kilometers wide and 26 kilometers high!

Olympus Mons, an inactive volcano on Mars, spreads over an area as large as the state of Arizona.

"Naught happens here but as the Gods ordain. / It may not be, nor doth the Lord divine / of high Olympus nor the Fates design / that thou should'st take Creusa."

At a height of over twenty-six kilometres, the highest known mountain in the Solar System is Olympus Mons, named after the home of the Greek Gods of antiquity.

In Greece there is a mountain called Olympus.

Mars has the largest volcano in the solar system, called Olympus Mons.

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Sleeping-car passengers, however, will know little of their entry into Greece until, at 6 a.m. on the third morning after leaving Paris, the short train runs over the Vardar plain, with dawn glimpses of Mount Athos to the east and of cloud-capped Olympus across the gulf to the south, past the rebuilt yard and into the new passenger station at Salonica.

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