How do you use Hippomenes in a sentence? See 4 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts.
Hippomenes in a sentence
Context around Hippomenes
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hippomenes
- In this selection, "hippomenes" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, asked and came stand out and add context to how "hippomenes" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include ahead of hippomenes he rolled and atalanta and hippomenes would never. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hippomenes" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aaargh, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hippomenes
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
King Schoeneus agreed, and many young men died in the attempt until Hippomenes came along. (15 words)
Hippomenes asked the goddess Aphrodite for help, and she gave him three golden apples in order to slow Atalanta down. (20 words)
The apples were irresistible, so every time Atalanta got ahead of Hippomenes, he rolled an apple ahead of her, and she would run after it. (25 words)
The belief at the time was that lions could not mate with their own species, only with leopards; thus Atalanta and Hippomenes would never be able to remain with one another. (31 words)
The apples were irresistible, so every time Atalanta got ahead of Hippomenes, he rolled an apple ahead of her, and she would run after it. (25 words)
Hippomenes asked the goddess Aphrodite for help, and she gave him three golden apples in order to slow Atalanta down. (20 words)
Example sentences (4)
Hippomenes asked the goddess Aphrodite for help, and she gave him three golden apples in order to slow Atalanta down.
King Schoeneus agreed, and many young men died in the attempt until Hippomenes came along.
The apples were irresistible, so every time Atalanta got ahead of Hippomenes, he rolled an apple ahead of her, and she would run after it.
The belief at the time was that lions could not mate with their own species, only with leopards; thus Atalanta and Hippomenes would never be able to remain with one another.