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Sentence Examples They left Andromache and stopped on the island of the Cyclopes, trying to avoid Scylla and Charybdis. Racing down the straight, under the railway bridge, knocking my shins against Scylla and Charybdis, I make it to the end. Ah, the joys of being a late Boomer in middle-age, caught between Scylla and Charybdis. So most US voters think things are going really well, when in fact the CPA is piloting between Scylla and Charybdis. Minos besieged his town and his daughter Scylla cut the lock from his head and offered it to him. Though Scylla is bent, harsh, and angry, the source of her rage is not vindictive. Scylla had once been a beautiful girl pursued by many suitors before she was transformed to a monster. Meanwhile many ordinary Egyptians will find themselves back at square one, caught between Scylla and Charybdis. After the Sirens are the drifting rocks which must be avoided by taking a route that goes past Scylla, a six-headed monster, and Charybdis, a whirlpool. Sceptics about musical meaning tend to regard these alternatives under the sign of Scylla and Charybdis, as formidable dangers nearly impossible to avoid. The Argo slipped through Scylla and Charybdis, guarded by nymphs. Winder's history of immigration charts an admirable course between the Scylla of racist little Britainism and the Charybdis of utopian open-handedness. Beyond the increase in activity of the human kind, the dream of Scylla turning into an underwater haven for marine life looks to be turning to fruition. With software that asked voters to confirm their choices, the new machinery, it was thought, would avoid the Scylla and Charybdis of over-votes and under-votes. The analyst must steer between the Scylla of decontextualisation and the Charybdis of over-generalisation. In contrast Scylla is closely aligned with Africanisms, albeit in an alienated form. I then took a strait That gave myself, and some few more, receipt 'Twixt Scylla and Charybdis. On the other hand, Pakistan was between Scylla and Charybdis whether to stand with the Taliban or support America which was supposed to be its product. They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks. Defining the main risk between Scylla and Charybdis is never easy. Show More Sentences Perhaps that is the fate of all such guides, doomed to sail between the Scylla of hectoring nationalism and the Charybdis of milquetoasty ingratiation. Examples from Classical Literature Then, with great pains and trouble, she pulled and lifted Scylla into the saddle. Scylla had heard the thunder of the approaching herd too, and was too frightened to speak. The ancients would have represented it as a sea-monster with open jaws, more terrible than Scylla and Charybdis. The conquest of the mainland was speedily effected, though gata, Reggio and the rock of Scylla held out for some months. Scylla was standing on her feet, for the first time in many years. The passage between Scylla and Charybdis is often a wide one. We, and the new faith with us, are between Scylla and Charybdis. It seemed sailing 'twixt Scylla and Charybdis, but it was worth trying. What hath availed me Syrtes or Scylla, what desolate Charybdis? Scylla could seldom visit the ranch, for she was an invalid. Scylla exclaimed to Martha as John fixed her on Texas's back. She rode up close to Scylla and put her hand on Texas's neck. It made me quite faint to feel that we might escape the Scylla of our present peril and yet split on the Charybdis of circumstantial evidence. The whirlwinds of fire and the smoke that hangs on Scylla suggests allusion to Stromboli and perhaps even Etna. What manner Syrt, what ravening Scylla, what vasty Charybdis? Then we entered the Straits in great fear of mind, for on the one hand was Scylla, and on the other dread Charybdis kept sucking up the salt water. It is about 8 miles thence to the Sicilian coast, so Ulysses may be perfectly well told that after passing Scylla he will come to the Thrinacian island or Sicily. While we were taken up with this, and were expecting each moment to be our last, Scylla pounced down suddenly upon us and snatched up my six best men. Find more words! 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