Example sentences for: greco-

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

  • "The nude Greco-Roman wrestling that concludes every episode of Late Edition ."-- Tim Carvell

  • In the shallows off its southern tip are the remains of the Greco-Roman city of Ólous and just beyond the bridge a 4th-century a.d. mosaic within the foundations of an early Christian basilica.

  • 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.

  • There are numerous artifacts found at the Kydonía Minoan site, but equally impressive Greco-Roman remains including a collection of beautiful Hellenistic mosaics.

  • The Greco-Roman tradition is not the only happy hunting ground for the Niceness Principle.


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