Example sentences for: deities

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

  • Once re-established in Java, the Dutch attempted to increase their influence and also to prevent the Balinese from plundering ships wrecked off the coast (the Balinese considered shipwrecks to be gifts from the deities of the seas, and felt it would be insulting to refuse them).

  • The forecast is a tale of heroes (the noble high-pressure system), savage villains (Hurricane Andrew), and omnipotent, inexplicable deities (El Niño, the Jet Stream).

  • It was finally abandoned towards the fourth century a.d. when the country looked to a new group of deities.

  • The tank is encircled by small sculptured deities and coiled snakes.

  • Statuary found all around the Kingdom depicts both the important deities — Osiris, Hathor, Isis and others — and the Pharaohs of the major dynasties.


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