Example sentences for: bc

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

  • Here comes Miles, authoritatively quoting Diodorus, the Greek historian, who recorded (60-30BC) that “innocent women even swelled the ranks of pitiful slaves whose forced labour built the pyramids:

  • One of my personal favorites in this category is mithridatism the gradual immunization of a person against a poison by administering it over a long period in small, but increasing dosages; it refers to Mithridates IV the Great of Pontus (? 133-65 BC), who, according to Justinian, foiled a conspiracy by just such a method before dispatching the conspirators one day at dinner by dosing the food with poison that had no effect on him.

  • Earlier, on page 49, we learnt about Agnodice, “who lived to become the world's first known woman gynaecologist,” in the fourth century BC.

  • BC: No, forget it.

  • AB, AC, AD, BC, BD, ABC, BCD.


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