Example sentences for: attica

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

  • It is in Attica that we begin, for the notion that the many complex substances with which we are surrounded in daily life might in reality be compounded from a much smaller number of basic elements is documented as far back as the golden age of Greece.

  • In 1979, while a member of the City Council, she hosted a coming-out-of-jail cocktail party for John R. Hill, who had murdered a corrections officer on the first day of the Attica riots.

  • The revolt failed, but the Persian king, Darius, could not let such impudence go unpunished, and in 490 b.c. he confidently launched an invasion of Attica.

  • In 1456 Athens and Attica were taken by the Turks in their rampage across the disintegrating Byzantine Empire.

  • Although they warred as often as they united, the citizens of Athens and surrounding city-states on the Attica peninsula, notably Sparta and Thebes, shared a sense of identity.


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