Pelias is an English word starting with the letter P. With 8 example sentences you'll see exactly how it works in context.
Pelias in a sentence
Context around Pelias
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 2 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pelias
- In this selection, "pelias" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, king, kill, daughters and saw stand out and add context to how "pelias" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include claimed to pelias daughters that and daughters of pelias. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pelias" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aaba and aafc, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pelias
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
She later convinced Jason and Medea to kill Pelias. (9 words)
She blessed him for she knew, as goddesses do, what Pelias had planned. (13 words)
Jason returns It should be noted that Thomas Bulfinch has an antecedent to the interaction of Medea and the daughters of Pelias. (22 words)
Many years later, Pelias was holding games in honor of Poseidon, when Jason arrived in Iolcus and lost one of his sandals in the river Anauros ("wintry Anauros"), while helping an old woman to cross (the Goddess Hera in disguise). (40 words)
Medea, using her sorcery, claimed to Pelias' daughters that she could make their father smooth and vigorous as a child by chopping him up into pieces and boiling the pieces in a cauldron of water and magical herbs. (38 words)
Medea withdrew the blood from Aeson's body; she infused it with certain herbs and returned it to his veins, invigorating him. citation The daughters of king Pelias saw this and wanted the same service for their father. (38 words)
Example sentences (8)
Alcimede I (wife of Aeson) already had an infant son named Jason whom she saved from being killed by Pelias, by having women cluster around the newborn and cry as if he were still-born.
Jason returns It should be noted that Thomas Bulfinch has an antecedent to the interaction of Medea and the daughters of Pelias.
Many years later, Pelias was holding games in honor of Poseidon, when Jason arrived in Iolcus and lost one of his sandals in the river Anauros ("wintry Anauros"), while helping an old woman to cross (the Goddess Hera in disguise).
Medea, using her sorcery, claimed to Pelias' daughters that she could make their father smooth and vigorous as a child by chopping him up into pieces and boiling the pieces in a cauldron of water and magical herbs.
Medea withdrew the blood from Aeson's body; she infused it with certain herbs and returned it to his veins, invigorating him. citation The daughters of king Pelias saw this and wanted the same service for their father.
Pelias, still fearful that he would one day be overthrown, consulted an oracle who warned him to beware of a man with one sandal.
She blessed him for she knew, as goddesses do, what Pelias had planned.
She later convinced Jason and Medea to kill Pelias.