Example sentences for: classical

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

  • According to Aristotle, it was the qualitative pluralist Empedocles (484-424 B.C.E.) who first argued that everything was fundamentally reducible to the elements earth, water, air and fire (or sunlight) in different proportions, but, as one classical scholar observes, a popular belief in the four as somehow basic ingredients in nature was much older, possibly a borrowing from Egypt.

  • One wing of the museum is housed in a beautiful Neo-Classical house designed by Bavarian architect Ernst Ziller for Othon and Athina Stathatos, a prominent Athenian couple.

  • Originally, this would have been topped by a bronze tripod  — a prize awarded in choral competitions during the Classical era.

  • Its use in Classical Latin was more or less the same as it is today--as a weak aspiration, the Romans being no more desirous of exerting themselves than we are.

  • The Municipal Museum, behind a traditional Chinese gateway, displays both archaeological finds and classical art.


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