Example sentences for: carthage

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

  • Senator Albert Gore, Sr. will no doubt take great comfort in learning from a NYT correction (of an article about Clark Clifford's memorial service) that he is not "late," but actually 90 years old and living in Carthage, Tennessee.

  • But Carthage’s luck changed with an initial victory in the Second Punic War (218–201 b.c.).

  • The new culture spread throughout the Mediterranean, helped by a huge increase in migration from the mainland to new settlements such as Carthage, a Greek city on the African coast of the Mediterranean.

  • Carthage, challenged by Rome in the First Punic War (264–241 b.c.), lost most of her neglected holdings in Spain through Iberian attacks.

  • Only with the fall of Carthage in 146 b.c. did they manage to make inroads, but, as local historians stress, Ibiza was neither conquered nor annexed by Rome, but confederated, retaining remarkable autonomy.


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