adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
beast
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Some letters were pictures in themselves, containing miniature dragons, wyverns, centaurs and other mythical beasts .
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Legendary in concept, this depiction of Barbarossa at Gelnhausen portrays him in the company of mythical beasts .
creature
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Snow White is a classic tale, one that conjures up wonderful images of mythical creatures .
figure
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At this stage Provenzano had become a near-mythical figure .
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This stuff written about me has created a mythical figure in the public mind.
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The man was a mythical figure from the Doctor's past.
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How does a mythical figure ask a lady to dance?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Faulkner set his novels in the mythical Yoknapatawpha County.
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the mythical hero Hercules
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Col. 10 contains references to the mythical events recounted in the poem.
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Franklin draws much of her inspiration from early cultures and the symbolic and mythical imagery associated with them.
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Some letters were pictures in themselves, containing miniature dragons, wyverns, centaurs and other mythical beasts.
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Sometimes they can have a mythical dimension, images that shed a new light on traditions of wisdom or legend.
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The Arjun tank, named after a mythical Hindu warrior, would eventually compete with products in the Western arms market.
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The man was a mythical figure from the Doctor's past.
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The sheer size of the sanctuary represented Mount Meru, the mythical Olympus on which the gods were believed to live.
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This stuff written about me has created a mythical figure in the public mind.