Example sentences for: egyptian

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

  • Nearby Ramses Square plays host to the Victorian Railway Station, designed in the heyday of colonialism and fronted by a monumental granite statue of Ramses II transported from the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis in 1955.

  • Discos are also popular — some of the most popular can be found at the major international hotels — and have a regular Egyptian clientele in addition to attracting visitors.

  • In an interview with the Financial Times of London, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak predicted a furious Arab backlash if the United States was to bomb Iraq.

  • The Post and the LAT reveal that the co-pilot had a sick daughter (the LAT attributes this news to an Egyptian newspaper); the Post says that she has been receiving outpatient treatment at UCLA Medical Center for about a year, although she has been improving lately.

  • After presenting various systems of communication (signs, pictographs, rebuses, shorthand, tallies, Babylonian clay tokens, Peruvian quipus), Robinson discusses such ancient and now defunct but decipherable writing systems as Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Minoan Greek Linear B, and Mayan glyphs; ditto some of the more outstanding conundra awaiting decipherment--Cretan Linear A, Proto-Elamite, Etruscan, and the Easter Island and Indus scripts.


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