Example sentences for: archimedes

How can you use “archimedes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • His own answer, maddeningly brief, invokes Archimedes' garden in Syracuse, where the philosopher worked defiantly on his theorem even as barbarians clamored at the gates.

  • It was here in the third century b.c. that the famous mathematician Archimedes is said to have proven his water displacement theory in the bath, and then run naked into the street crying “Eureka” (I have it! )

  • In the third century, after the invention of the fulcrum and lever, Archimedes wrote, "Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth."


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