Example sentences for: attila

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

  • The invasion of Attila’s Huns and the Goths and Vandals who came to sack, rape, murder, and pillage Rome brought an end to the Western Empire in 476 with the abdication of Emperor Romulus Augustus.

  • A screwball political satire about a senator (played by Beatty) who loses his senses and begins to babble the truth on the stump, the film has a kamikaze comic spirit that's spectacularly disarming, particularly coming from its hitherto overcautious auteur--not to mention a major studio owned by right-of-Attila Rupert Murdoch.

  • As the Roman empire began to crumble, however, Huns and Vandals swarmed over the river, and during the early fifth century Aquincum fell to the tribes of Attila.

  • When Attila died in 453 the Huns were overthrown and the Avars became the dominant power, occupying the region from the middle of the sixth century to the early ninth century.

  • I would like to thank Richard Trudeau, Sherlock Holmes, and Attila the Hun for helpful comments on an earlier draft.


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