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How to use Tantalus in a sentence

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The Argive king Tantalus began a pattern of destruction for Argos after he offended the gods by feeding them his son Pelops at a banquet.
The gap between his aspirations and achievements slowly drove Tantalus mad.
In May, a civilian helicopter airlifted the components to their final site in the Tantalus mountain range, a seven-minute flight from Squamish.
In 1844 a German chemist, Heinrich Rose, discovered what he considered to be a new element occurring along with tantalum and named it niobium after Niobe, the mythological goddess who was the daughter of Tantalus.
He will remember that Tantalus was punished because, having been admitted to rub shoulders with the Greek gods at heaven's high feast, he failed to curb the intemperance of his tongue.
The Sea-to-Sky Volunteer Centre is at the north end of Squamish, only 35 minutes south of Whistler, in the new Spectacle Building at 40437 Tantalus Road.
According to an Olympian Ode written by Pindar in the 5th century BC, Pelops, the son of Tantalus, came from Asia Minor to Peloponnese to compete in a chariot race organised by Oenomaos, the king of Pisa in Peloponnese.
More affordable are Victorian decanters and a tantalus, a lockable case usually made to hold three cut-glass decanters.
Green monkeys are also called vervets, tantalus, sabeus, and grivet monkeys.
Over all, there brooded the shadow of his injuries and the tantalus of their slow healing.
Yes, there was a tantalus containing brandy and whisky on the sea-chest.
Examples from Classical Literature
Fate had fallen on his house, had marked it for destruction as erewhile that of Tantalus.
Tantalus lay far out on a spiral arm, well away from the main stream of traffic that flowed through the galaxy.
Who cannot attain the latter is a Tantalus, seeking but never reaching the fruit.
Niobe was a daughter of Tantalus, and is the personification of grief.
The Homeric notices of Pelops are not more liberal than of Tantalus.
I passed the time with one restless eye upon the clock, and the other on the Tantalus which Raffles ruthlessly declined to unlock.
The next two forms, Tantalus and Sisyphus, have also a kinship.
Pelops, the son of the cruel Tantalus, was a pious and virtuous prince.
And poor Dandy, like an equine Tantalus, was robbed of the needed fluid.
Why, one that was held by right, handed down from Tantalus and Pelops.
It was now to me as to Tantalus the crystal waters, never to be tasted.
I shall probably have to bear the pains of Tantalus three months longer.
But in this emergency Poseidon came to the aid of the son of Tantalus.
A man in such a situation is somewhat like Tantalus reversed.
Boundary unlocked his Tantalus and took out a full decanter of whisky.
An original chef de cuisine humaine, Tantalus prepares and serves his son Pelops to the gods in order to test whether they can distinguish the taste of human from beast.
People's Energy Cooperative has selected Tantalus Systems to deploy a state-of-the-art hybrid IP-based network to support advanced metering infrastructure.
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