Sentence examples for odyssey up from inspiring English sources

"We put Stephan's Odyssey up close today because he had the No. 1 post position," Stephens said.

George E. Dimock now brings the Loeb's Odyssey up to date, with a rendering that retains Murray's admirable style but is worded for today's readers.

Delve in and you'll find chronicles of a penniless month of hitchhiking around New Zealand, a motorcycle odyssey up the Pan-American highway, and a spontaneous car trip to Yereven, Armenia.

Something as annoying as a broken glass refrigerator shelf launches a literal odyssey: Look up the words for shelf (rayon) and glazier (vitrier) in the dictionary (dictionnaire).

His walk, a kind of odyssey, takes up an entire chapter: he watches a fight; encounters the girl of his 13-year-old dreams; and spies on a pair of lovers in a field.

Records also indicate that Scottish palaces were adorned by rich tapestries, like those that depicted scenes from the Iliad and Odyssey set up for James IV at Holyrood.

There I was (just like Keir Dullea in 2001: A Space Odyssey), propped up in a sitting position, surrounded by silence and staring at a soothing green wall with a sense of idiotic wonderment.

Each Odyssey, lasting up to six weeks, is formatted into four steps: Meet the Problem, Investigate and Inquire, Build Solutions, and Take Action.

"It's been a wonderful, odd odyssey with ups, downs and sometimes screw-me-arounds — we all know about those," Withers said with a chuckle.

In a more conventional picture, Sandra's fraught odyssey would wind up in one of two places.

After that outing, O'Connell began a Walmart odyssey, visiting stores up and down the East Coast and across the South, photographing the shelves and the shoppers — visits that were punctuated by the store managers invoking the no-pictures rule.