CHIMERA in a Sentence

Learn CHIMERA from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for CHIMERA, such as:

1. Our chimeras are the things which the most resemble us.
2. Now that's an interesting political animal or chimera or whatever.
3. I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth.
4. Legends, chimeras, the soul, immortality, paradise, the stars, are provided for them to swallow.

Stories of USA Today
Materials for Reading & Listening Practice
 Input your word:
Search Sentence
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of CHIMERA
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
chimera
 n.  monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having lion head, goat body, and dragon tail
Classic Sentence:
1  Legends, chimeras, the soul, immortality, paradise, the stars, are provided for them to swallow.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING
2  Our chimeras are the things which the most resemble us.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY
3  He preserved this opinion even after the feast, with the remnants of which he repaired his own long abstinence; but when in the evening he made his master's bed, the chimeras of Planchet faded away.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 7 THE INTERIOR* OF THE MUSKETEERS
4  I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
Example Sentence:
1  Now that's an interesting political animal or chimera or whatever.