Example sentences for: codex

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

  • Looking at the English translation of the codex on a CD-ROM at the exhibit, I saw that what began as an attempt by Leonardo to set down the first principles of the behavior of water ended up as a farrago of observations and musings--fanciful, insightful, analytically maddening.

  • It is Leonardo's sheer ability to see --to notice, in a way that no one had before, precisely what it looks like when two streams of water merge--that accounts for the thrilling bits of the Codex

  • What is the evidence for such deep originality in the Codex Leicester ? The manuscript itself, whose pages are dimly illumined in a series of glass cases at the museum, is not, at first blush, a fetching object.

  • The earls of Leicester, who owned the codex since 1717, seem rarely to have looked at it.

  • (On the other hand, a device described in the Codex Leicester that, the exhibition catalogue notes, "sounds curiously similar to a modern espresso machine," seems entirely original.)


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