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Six example sentences with phoenix, each labelled with its topic.
The temple ceiling shows a phoenix rising from its own burning nest, the same creature that died there a century earlier.
Art
The animated film ends with a phoenix bursting from the embers of its own nest, older and brighter than before.
Movies
Roman coins stamped with a phoenix promised that the empire would rise again from every fire that destroyed it.
History
The poem compares grief to a phoenix, since the mourner must burn before anything new can rise from the ashes.
Literature
A phoenix feather in the game revives a fallen party member once, then crumbles to ash in your inventory.
Gaming
A gilded phoenix crowns the rebuilt city hall, a reminder that the old building burned to the ground in 1871.
Architecture
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