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Frankenstein

[ US /ˈfɹæŋkənˌstaɪn, ˈfɹæŋkənˌstin/ ]
NOUN
  1. the monster created by Frankenstein in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (the creator's name is commonly used to refer to his creation)
  2. an agency that escapes control and destroys its creator
  3. the fictional Swiss scientist who was the protagonist in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; he created a monster from parts of corpses

How To Use Frankenstein In A Sentence

  • It likewise furthered the career of Mary Shelley as "The Author of Frankenstein," the rubric under which she continued her anonymous publication with a second novel immersed in medieval Italian history, Valperga: or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (1823). Biography
  • Trash and harrowingly low budgets are the point of a Versus movie, as the genre's pioneers well knew back when they were churning out Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein/The Invisible Man/The Mummy. Cowboys & Aliens: the Versus movie without Versus in its name
  • Pont's plan was to remould Sharma's javelin hurl into a biomechanically perfect round-arm sling, in the process creating a fast-bowling Frankenstein's monster. Why Samit Patel's cricket skill set carries so much weight | Barney Ronay
  • This distrust is evident in the cartoon figure of the mad scientist working in his laboratory to produce a Frankenstein.
  • Baron Frankenstein guided me through the creation of his new Prometheus, and from there I read about the original Prometheus, and then to an anatomy textbook to see what parts were needed for a monster. A flood of dark memories « Write Anything
  • Bad organizations are self-created Frankenstein's monsters, beyond the control or influence of their leaders.
  • Mary Shelley raved in her letters about thenear-tropical color of the lake, "blue as the heavens which it reflects, " andused an array of scenes from Lake Geneva in "Frankenstein.
  • The OED does not record ‘creature’ in the sense of ‘monster’ Hollywood's ‘creature from outer space’ but one might conjecture it to derive directly from Frankenstein's onomastic confusion.
  • Too many people think cloning cells for the fight against disease is the same thing as creating Frankenstein's monster.
  • They call themselves "biohackers" and they acknowledge the danger of unleashing a genetically altered Frankenstein\'s monster on the public or terrorists could be inspired by amateur genetic tinkering to launch a devastating bioattack on America. ' OpEdNews - Quicklink: "Biohackers" tinkering with the very foundations of life on Earth
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