Example sentences for: babylon

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

  • Silver is from OE siolfor/seolfor , Proto-Germanic * silubhra , and may not be an Indo-European word at all, but one borrowed from the Semitic language Akkadian (the language of Babylon): sarpu refined metal.

  • He returned to Babylon, leaving a few governors on the frontier.

  • Music -- Time Out of Mind , by Bob Dylan, and Bridges to Babylon , by the Rolling Stones;

  • In Alas, Babylon , Pat Frank's classic nuclear-apocalypse novel of the 1950s, a man awaits word that nuclear war is imminent.

  • Alas, Babylon


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