How to Use scarab in a Sentence

scarab

noun
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  • Pride of place goes to the sacred scarab, seen here in all stones and sizes.
    — Laura Jacobs, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2022
  • Maridueña will star as Jaime Reyes, a teen who bonds with an alien scarab.
    — Vulture, 3 Dec. 2022
  • The ring finds the Green Lantern, a scarab attaches to the Blue Beetle’s back.
    — Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Feb. 2022
  • These include the Eye of Horus, the scarab, the akhet amulet of the horizon, the placenta, the Knot of Isis, and others.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The heart scarab silenced the heart on Judgement Day, so as not to bear witness against the deceased.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 Jan. 2023
  • If that’s the case, this young royal was likely laid to rest wearing a scarab that bore the title of the city’s ruler.
    — National Geographic, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Milagro opens the box at home, and the scarab fuses with her brother.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
  • By collecting data using the CT scans, the researchers were able to 3D-print a copy of the heart scarab.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Images of scarabs were believed to bring good fortune, in this world and the next, if sewn in to the wrappings of your mummy.
    — National Geographic, 13 Mar. 2019
  • For hair, colors like the glow of the Northern Lights or gleam of a scarab’s shell are now attainable with Colour Alchemy.
    — Margaux Anbouba, ELLE, 5 Dec. 2022
  • This sort of body horror thing that happens, which is straight from the comic, the scarab grafting itself to spine, all that stuff.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Long story short, Jenny steals the scarab and passes it to Jaime for safekeeping.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2023
  • And the scarab was one of their most important symbols, used to show that one could be reborn again in the same way that the sun rises each morning.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The beetle’s helmet consisted of eight different pieces, but the biggest challenge was the scarab on the back.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Consider the dung-roller scarabs, revered by the Ancient Egyptians and the subjects of many a film documentary.
    — Richard Jones, Smithsonian, 10 Jan. 2018
  • The queen wore a scarab brooch that had been a gift from her late husband, Prince Philip, a former high-ranking naval officer who died last month at age 99.
    — Pan Pylas, Star Tribune, 22 May 2021
  • The mummy creates scary chaos by controlling sand, wind and swarming scarabs.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland.com, 9 June 2017
  • Tamut was mummified with a large sheet-metal falcon ornament and a scarab over what was once her heart.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 18 Jan. 2020
  • With strict instructions to not open the box the scarab is hiding in, Jaime returns home where his family coerces him to peek inside.
    — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The scarab will reveal the location of Ammit's tomb, so Harrow can release her and let Ammit exact her judgment on the world.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 May 2022
  • The scarab activates and attaches itself to his face, to everyone's horror—yep, just like the face huggers in Alien.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 3 Apr. 2023
  • This image shows the decoration of a large funerary scarab made from green semiprecious stone.
    — Chris Giles, CNN, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The first version of the character was a man named Dan Garrett, an archaeologist who first found the scarab in an Egyptian ruin.
    — Time, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Made of amethyst, bone, faience, glass, turquoise, and umber, and including phallic amulets, scarabs, a woman, a dancing satyr, and a head of Dionysus, they are thought to be the treasure box of a sorceress.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Jesús Gris happens upon a 450-year-old, scarab-shaped object that enables enteral life.
    — Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Federico Luppi plays an antiques dealer who finds a scarab that leads him into a nightmare.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2021
  • An ancient spell inscribed on a scarab to ease the journey of the dead into the afterlife depicted birds without legs, to prevent them from wandering away from the spell.
    — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2020
  • The scarab gives Reyes a suit of high-powered armor that can withstand space travel and also shoot various armaments.
    — Vulture, 3 Dec. 2022
  • They’re handmade by female Egyptian artisans and have clasps in the shape of lotus flowers or scarabs—my favorite detail.
    — Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2023
  • And a scarab ring (which held amuletic powers in ancient Egypt) features iridescent wings crafted from, what else, but the actual wings of a dung beetle.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 21 Aug. 2018

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