Example sentences for: greeks

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

  • However, the Greeks also called the metal quicksilver; in Greek, liquid silver is hydrárgyros , from which the symbol Hg derived.

  • The Guardian said Blair intends to proceed sensitively in order to avoid further antagonizing the Greeks.

  • That strategic advantage is no less important today than it was 2,500 years ago, when a band of Greeks first founded the city of Byzantium on this very spot.

  • Arriving in the eighth century b.c. , the Greeks set up city-states in Sicily, dominated by Syracuse, as well as other settlements on the Italian mainland, such as Naples, Paestum, and Taranto.

  • Nothing has had a greater impact on the Costa Blanca than foreign invasion: Iberians, Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Visigoths, and Moors had moulded Spain’s Mediterranean shores centuries before international tourism gained a foothold.


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