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- the largest of Jupiter's satellites
- (Greek mythology) a Trojan boy who was so beautiful that Zeus carried him away to serve as cupbearer to the gods
How To Use Ganymede In A Sentence
- To be sure, Ganymede whom I am carrying off from the halls of Dardanus. The Cyclops
- And I remembered Fulton's remark about calling Ganymede for a tanker. Reach For Tomorrow
- Indeed, Ganymede is the largest moon in the whole solar system.
- Momently, looking out toward the gray ruin on the hill (which was once, most likely, the very "sheepcote fenced about with olive trees" where Aliena dwelt and Ganymede found hose and doublet give such pleasing freedom to her limbs and her wit) one expects to hear the merry note of a horn; the moralizing Duke would come striding thoughtfully through the thicket down by the tiny pool Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
- On the one hand, the fact that Ganymede is a boy, so beautiful that Zeus decides to abduct and rape him, highlights this interchangeability. The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality
- Lots" by Marc Andreottola, appearing in Ganymede 5 Tick TOCs
- JUPITER V Moving more and more slowly as she approached the far point of her ellipse, Discovery soared past the orbits of Ganymede and Callisto-but they were out of range on the other side of Jupiter. Tin
- Far from being an example of radiant perfection handing down instructions from Mount Sinai about how we should lead our moral lives, Zeus is the embodiment of raunchy behavior, seducing the mortal Alcmena, for example, by pretending to be her husband (thus producing Hercules), and raping Leda in the shape of a swan (thus producing Helen and Polydeuces) -- even having a brief fling with his gay torchbearer, Ganymede. Robert Brustein: Monotonous Monotheism
- The scientists on Ganymede, largest of Jupiter's many moons, now thought that they could predict the onset of a decameter storm; their accuracy was about as good as a weather forecaster's of the early A Meeting with Medusa
- There are Met ships crossing the asteroid belt," Sherman replied, "closing on Ganymede for `taxation enforcement. METAPLANETARY