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Flying Dutchman

NOUN
  1. the captain of a phantom ship (the Flying Dutchman) who was condemned to sail against the wind until Judgment Day
  2. a phantom ship that is said to appear in storms near the Cape of Good Hope

How To Use Flying Dutchman In A Sentence

  • The programme opened with the overture to Wagner's Flying Dutchman.
  • The legend of the Flying Dutchman is as old as Homer, who showed us Ulysses as an unresting traveler, yearning for home and domestic joys.
  • We passed the Flying Dutchman, chugged up the lane out of town and on to a bridleway, a nice route of beech and oak and large mossy boulders of gritstone.
  • As a keen sailor, he recognised a niche in the market in 1959, and the result was the open two-man leeboard boat called the Flying Dutchman. YBW News
  • Often referred to as RVP, the flying Dutchman is set fair for a successful World Cup as he's back to full fitness after missing most of Arsenal's season through a long-term ankle injury.
  • Ryder is akin to Coleridge, too, for there is a direct visional analogy between "The Flying Dutchman" and the excessively pictorial stanzas of "The Ancient Mariner. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
  • Because there is only one flying dutchman, you —— Arjen Robben.
  • I think we all know what the stigma here is: To be seen driving a minivan is to admit to a kind of shameful domesticity, an existence of postsexual nullity and a state of parental slavery, ever orbiting from school, to grocery store, to ballet lessons, to games, like some suburban Flying Dutchman. A Van Parents Will Love
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