Examples of “odyssey” in a Sentence

noun A long, eventful journey, especially one full of challenges.

• Getting home during the snowstorm turned into an exhausting odyssey of delayed trains and long walks.
• The explorers wrote a book about their odyssey through the frozen north.
• Their road trip across three continents became a two-year odyssey.

noun A prolonged search or personal journey, often intellectual or spiritual rather than physical.

• His odyssey to find his true calling took him through five different careers.
• After years of doubt, her spiritual odyssey finally led her to a quiet sense of peace.
• Her memoir traces her odyssey from addiction to recovery.