Sentence examples for the ogre from inspiring English sources

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the ogre

noun

A type of brutish giant from folk tales that eats human flesh.

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The ogre, he wants to devour his prey".

"The ogre," as W.H. Auden wrote, "does what ogres can".

By the ogre falling in love with the ogre girl, he is saying: "I too am beautiful.

The princess fought the ogre and saved the boy.

"Guilet was the ogre at the start," Mr. Pressler said.

The Ogre of Oglefort, by Eva Ibbotson (Macmillan, £9.99).

The French call Rafael Nadal the ogre of the clay but the ogre is a little tired.

The ogre turns back into a goat, then into Cherninsky's dead sister, drenched, draped in seaweed.

Yet the Ogre never "says" anything: he mumbles, sputters, moans, grunts and wails.

'Bluebeard' is so very dark because in the end the ogre isn't an ogre.

The ogre is still there, even if for the time being it is safely chained.

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