Looking for sentences and phrases with the word Xanthippe? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
When Socrates's friends arrived, Xanthippe and their youngest child, Menexenus, were still with him.
Socrates was married, you know, and his wife, Xanthippe, was a shrew.
Geach noted that we can distinguish between real changes, such as what occurs in Socrates when he dies, from mere changes in which predicates one satisfies, such as occurs in Xanthippe when Socrates dies.
The name of Xanthippe, the wife of Socrates, has become proverbial for a termagant.
The city quickly becomes a vision of urban utopia only to be destroyed in vengeance by Xanthippe, as all golems do.
Examples from Classical Literature
The wife of Socrates, Xanthippe, was a woman of a most fantastical and furious spirit.
Xanthippe has acquired the reputation of being the typical scold of antiquity.
The Queen arched her brows and looked inquiringly at Xanthippe for a moment.
At all events, Xanthippe, the Athenian beauty, was wed to Socrates the philosopher.
Then the House-boat must be recovered whether Xanthippe comes with it or not.
I am going back to my lonely apartment to write a letter to dear Xanthippe.
And now began the trials of Xanthippe, the wife of the literary man.
Whenever Xanthippe was angry, she used to scold poor Socrates roundly.
All well except Xanthippe, who is seasick in the billiard-room.
Xanthippe Voorhees, Jacqueline's stepdaughter, is an unhappy teenager who tries to impress her friends by pretending at promiscuity, drinking, and drug use.
A very beautiful woman named Xanthippe, the wife of Albinus, a friend of the emperor, also came to Peter with the other ladies and kept away from Albinus.
She finds it distressing that he is willing to spend only a short time with his wife Xanthippe and his children, preferring to die in the company of his male friends.
The popular anti-marriage story about the torments Socrates suffered at the hands of his wife Xanthippe is turned upside down in wedding orations.
