Damocles in a sentence

So we stood the whole time, rolling along the bumpy gravel roads, with tall stacks of cookie boxes ever-threatening to crush us in a cloud of powdered sugar, like the tastiest sword of Damocles ever.

This is a proverbial sword of Damocles hanging over their head.

I’m not going to hold it against AEW that they seem to have recently decided to drop these cold opens from Collision’s lineup; however, I will hold it over their heads like a Damocles sword that only I know about and/or care about.

They do have the sword of Damocles hanging over their head,” the judge told lawyers for Brickworks.

Given how broad the forthcomingcontrols are, "they could become a sword of Damocles, ready to fall on anyone exporting technology to China," explains Martin Chorzempa, a research fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

However, the chemicals involved in these experiments also involved injecting him with a controlled variant of HIV, which the government used as a Damocles sword over Chapel's head.

In short, the sword of Damocles hangs on the head of the healthcare worker as they prepare to fight at the frontline against the Covid-19 onslaught.

Two Swords of Damocles hanging over employees retiring from 2022.

Yet this sword of Damocles will always dangle over Lebanon’s head as long as the country is politically dominated by the “Islamic Resistance,” which has spent recent days urging death to America and Israel.

Beyond these challenges, Prime Minister Modi in his second term faces two Damocles’ swords in the form of potential U.S. sanctions which could threaten India’s broader strategic relationship with the United States.

Edward Burke (14) is entitled to a “presumption of innocence,” but can’t continue to function as an alderman with the “sword of Damocles” hanging over his head, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Tuesday.

He said, “I appeal that the Sword of Damocles of strike you should bring it down.

The Sword of Damocles is currently located at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

To begin with, there’s the new electoral law hanging like the sword of Damocles over the political system, threatening its stability.

While oligarchic parasites from the pharmaceutical industry and health insurance companies make enormous profits, bankruptcy and the fear of being denied care hang over the American people like a sword of Damocles.

England was holding over Americans’ heads a Sword of Damocles in the form of additional, egregious abuses just waiting to happen.

Near the end of his speech, Christie focused on the pension fund deficit, which he called the “sword of Damocles” hanging over the head of every New Jerseyan.

In it, the assassin's sword was seen hanging by a single strand of horsehair above Le Peletier's body, a concept inspired by the proverbial ancient tale of the sword of Damocles, which illustrated the insecurity of power and position.