Example sentences for: coptic

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

  • On the west bank of the river — set in a desert landscape — is the seventh-century Coptic monastery of St. Simeon now sadly in ruins, and the Mausoleum of the Aga Khan (1877–1957), spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslim sect.

  • There is no law against combining bogus, ad hoc , “foreign” words and the real thing in one breath, just as Keillor's narrator does in his “Altrusian” blessing, juxtaposing what is obviously nonsense next to genuine Latin ( domino ) and Hebrew ( shadrach, meshach, abednego ). Likewise, in ancient Greek magical texts snippets of Egyptian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Coptic, and Babylonian words and proper names commingle in happy abandon with endless concatenations of gibberish, producing a veritable Babelian babble to challenge the ingenuity of Indo-European and Semitist scholars alike two thousand years later, as they wrangle with these more-than-sesquipedalian creations of Greco-Egyptian magical fantasy.

  • Coptic Good Friday — 2002/ 3 May ; 2003/ 25 April; 2004/ 9 April; 2005/ 29 April; 2006/ 21 April; 2007/ 6 April; 2008/ 25 April.

  • The main attraction in Old Cairo is the Coptic Museum.

  • Denderah also has excellent ceiling detail, depicting goddess Nut on her journey across the sky, though they have been blackened by the fires of Coptic Christians and Arabs who later made the temple their home.


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