Example sentences for: classics

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

  • The ground floor is devoted to sculpture, including many Roman copies of classics from Greece’s Golden Age in the fifth century b.c. , which are our only access to these lost masterpieces.

  • Many of the formations resemble particular animals, plants, buildings, and characters out of Chinese classics.

  • Here are some classics: Smollett's novel is Humphry Clinker (1771), not “Humphrey”; Richardson's is Clarissa Harlowe (1748), not “Harlow”; Defoe's is Robinson Crusoe (1719), not “Cruso”; Rider Haggard's is Allan Quatermain (1887), not “Quartermain” or “Quatermaine.”

  • In another hall of the Confucius Temple is a complete edition of the Confucian classics carved in stone.

  • Gummere was headmaster of Penn Charter School for twenty-seven years, later taught classics and humanities at Haverford College.


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