Wondering how to use Cerberus in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as hellhound.
Cerberus in a sentence
Cerberus meaning
- The giant three-headed dog who guards the entrance to Hades; and one of the many offspring of Echidna and Typhon.
- A former constellation of the northern sky, near Hercules.
Synonyms of Cerberus
Using Cerberus
- The main meaning on this page is: The giant three-headed dog who guards the entrance to Hades; and one of the many offspring of Echidna and Typhon. | A former constellation of the northern sky, near Hercules.
- Useful related words include: hellhound, mythical monster, mythical creature.
- In the example corpus, cerberus often appears in combinations such as: cerberus has, of cerberus, and cerberus.
Context around Cerberus
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 9 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cerberus
- In this selection, "cerberus" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, drag, submissive, named, struggles, away and turning stand out and add context to how "cerberus" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a frightened cerberus struggles furiously and and submissive cerberus away. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cerberus" sits close to words such as abang, abetting and accented, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cerberus
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Heracles and Cerberus are usually alone, with Heracles leading Cerberus. (10 words)
Heracles carried Cerberus away, showed him to Eurystheus, then returned Cerberus to the underworld. (14 words)
Cerberus has been Evelyn’s companion ever since we met her back in 2018. (14 words)
But upon leaving the underworld, at his first sight of daylight, a frightened Cerberus struggles furiously, and Heracles, with the help of Theseus (who had been held captive by Hades, but released, at Heracles' request) drag Cerberus into the light. (40 words)
Horace (65 – 8 BC) also refers to Cerberus yielding to Orphesus' lyre, here Cerberus has a single dog head, which "like a Fury's is fortified by a hundred snakes", with a "triple-tongued mouth" oozing "fetid breath and gore". (40 words)
A blistering and deadly heat wave, which the Italian Meteorological Society has named Cerberus after the three-headed monster that features in Dante’s ‘Inferno’ as a guard to the gates of hell, is sweeping across parts of southern Europe. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
As players explore Cerberus's actions in the final game, they discover that the rogue VI wasn't just destroyed; it was repurposed by Cerberus, turning it into EDI, an AI designed to serve them.
But upon leaving the underworld, at his first sight of daylight, a frightened Cerberus struggles furiously, and Heracles, with the help of Theseus (who had been held captive by Hades, but released, at Heracles' request) drag Cerberus into the light.
Enraged, the previously submissive Cerberus struggles furiously, and Heracles and Theseus must together drag Cerberus into the light.
Heracles and Cerberus are usually alone, with Heracles leading Cerberus.
Heracles carried Cerberus away, showed him to Eurystheus, then returned Cerberus to the underworld.
Herodorus of Heraclea and Euphorion said that when Heracles brought Cerberus up from the underworld at Heraclea, Cerberus "vomited bile" from which the aconite plant grew up.
Horace (65 – 8 BC) also refers to Cerberus yielding to Orphesus' lyre, here Cerberus has a single dog head, which "like a Fury's is fortified by a hundred snakes", with a "triple-tongued mouth" oozing "fetid breath and gore".
In the earliest description of Cerberus, Hesiod 's Theogony (c. 8th – 7th century BC), Cerberus has fifty heads, while Pindar (c. 522 – c. 443 BC) gave him one hundred heads.
In the literary record, the first certain indication of Cerberus' serpentine nature comes from the rationalized account of Hecataeus of Miletus (fl. 500–494 BC), who makes Cerberus a large poisonous snake.
Plato (c. 425 – 348 BC) refers to Cerberus' composite nature, citing Cerberus, along with Scylla and the Chimera, as an example from "ancient fables" of a creature composed of many animal forms "grown together in one".
Seneca has Heracles use his lion-skin as shield, and his wooden club, to beat Cerberus into submission, after which Hades and Persephone, quailing on their thrones, let Heracles lead a chained and submissive Cerberus away.
A blistering and deadly heat wave, which the Italian Meteorological Society has named Cerberus after the three-headed monster that features in Dante’s ‘Inferno’ as a guard to the gates of hell, is sweeping across parts of southern Europe.
Cerberus has been Evelyn’s companion ever since we met her back in 2018.
Cerberus’ holding company, Freedom Group, gobbled up one gun manufacturer after another, notably Remington Arms.
Cerberus subsidiary Subcomm, engaged in building and installing submarine cables, will also move to the facility in August.
Evelyn calls in the café with Cerberus where Roy apologises for missing her birthday party and tells her about Carla’s problems.
The intense heat has been caused by an area of high pressure, unofficially named Cerberus after the multi-headed dog in Greek mythology, which has brought hot air from Africa to Europe.
He also never showed his face in the extensive videos and photos and used the usernames 'Monster' and 'Cerberus' - known as the three-headed hound of hell in Greek mythology.
He’s hotter than Cerberus walking through Hell right now, so let it happen.
Rose also highlighted the details of the character models for units like Medusa, Pegasus, and Cerberus.
Common combinations with cerberus
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- cerberus has 6×
- of cerberus 6×
- and cerberus 5×
- cerberus was 5×
- cerberus is 5×
- to cerberus 4×
- with cerberus 4×
- cerberus the 4×
- cerberus capital 4×
- cerberus into 3×