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Phoenix in sentence

21 examples of Phoenix in a sentence

Anybody who creates knows there's that point where it hasn't quite become the phoenix or the burnt char.
Perhaps the most popular resurrection theme, outside of specifically religious ones, is the one about the phoenix, the ancient story of the phoenix, who, every 500 years, resurrects itself from its own ashes to go on to live a life that is even more beautiful than it was before.
The main component of the San Francisco flag is a phoenix representing the city rising from the ashes after the devastating fires of the 1850s.
RM: I still don't really dig the phoenix.
Behind the phoenix, the background is mostly white, and then it has a substantial gold border around it.
And I would simply take the phoenix and make it a great big element in the middle of the flag.
RM: But the current phoenix, that's got to go.
TK: I would simplify or stylize the phoenix.
I had to be adaptable like Carly and evolve my skills, my mindset, and my circumstances, and then I had to be resilient, like Stefano, and resurrect myself and my career like a phoenix from the ashes.
I just saw this film at the phoenix film festival today and loved it.
The true epitome of the phoenix rising from the ashes.
Such steep price drops forced America’s rare-earths phoenix, the mining corporation Molycorp, to shut down operations in 2002.
Little wonder, then, that few Americans believe that what walks like a duck and quacks like a duck is actually the phoenix of recovery.
Thus, continuing pain seems likely for ordinary Japanese, whose thrift and productivity ensured that the country rose like a phoenix from its wartime destruction.
Or is it a phoenix, about to rise (yet again) from its ashes?
It is not always a phoenix that rises from the ashes.
"Whom have we here," said the trooper, "rising like a phoenix from the flames?
That is the body of Chrysostom, who was unrivalled in wit, unequalled in courtesy, unapproached in gentle bearing, a phoenix in friendship, generous without limit, grave without arrogance, gay without vulgarity, and, in short, first in all that constitutes goodness and second to none in all that makes up misfortune.
She is, moreover, a 'one-man woman'; hence, among our ladies of four and five divorces, she is straightway a phoenix.
But! hast thou heard that in Upper Egypt the phoenix has just been hatched out, as 'tis said?--an event which happens not oftener than once in five centuries."
Let us talk of the phoenix some other time."