Example sentences for: greeks

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

  • Xerxes suffered a further humiliating defeat in 479 b.c. , when his army was beaten at Plataea on the same day that his fleet lost to the Greeks at Mycale.

  • The ancient Greeks ascribed lightning to Zeus; we haven't made much progress.

  • The Pentagon suspected that the Greeks were giving NATO codes to Russia in exchange for a radio jamming system to disrupt Turkish combat jets.

  • Much later, the Greeks borrowed a foreign alphabet, Phoenician and adapted it to their needs.

  • But the Greeks developed few contacts with the interior beyond a little commerce in olives and wine with the Celts of Burgundy.


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