Procrustes is an English word. Below you'll find 2 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Procrustes in a sentence
Procrustes meaning
A celebrated legendary highwayman of Attica, who tied his victims upon an iron bed, and, as the case required, either stretched or cut off their legs to adapt them to its length.
Synonyms of Procrustes
Using Procrustes
- The main meaning on this page is: A celebrated legendary highwayman of Attica, who tied his victims upon an iron bed, and, as the case required, either stretched or cut off their legs to adapt them to its length.
- Useful related words include: mythical being.
Context around Procrustes
- Average sentence length in these examples: 36.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Procrustes
- In this selection, "procrustes" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 36.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Recognizable usage signals include 284 in procrustes and other and myth of procrustes who had. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "procrustes" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with procrustes
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner, Destroyer of Worlds (Tor Books, 2009), 284. In Procrustes and other later stories, Home is once again presented as a vibrant colony. (27 words)
My good friend Yaakov Shapiro also showed me the Greek myth of Procrustes, who had a bed in which he invited every passer-by to spend the night, and where he set to work on them with his smith’s hammer to stretch them to fit. (46 words)
My good friend Yaakov Shapiro also showed me the Greek myth of Procrustes, who had a bed in which he invited every passer-by to spend the night, and where he set to work on them with his smith’s hammer to stretch them to fit. (46 words)
Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner, Destroyer of Worlds (Tor Books, 2009), 284. In Procrustes and other later stories, Home is once again presented as a vibrant colony. (27 words)
Example sentences (2)
My good friend Yaakov Shapiro also showed me the Greek myth of Procrustes, who had a bed in which he invited every passer-by to spend the night, and where he set to work on them with his smith’s hammer to stretch them to fit.
Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner, Destroyer of Worlds (Tor Books, 2009), 284. In Procrustes and other later stories, Home is once again presented as a vibrant colony.