Example sentences for: hittite

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

  • While the Hittite Empire declined, other momentous events were taking place on the shores of the Aegean.

  • Carvings on the columns show Ramses (­in the form of Osiris) making offerings to the gods, but around the walls he is seen smitinghis foes duringbattles in Syria and is depicted as returning in triumph with hundreds of Hittite prisoners.

  • Using the evidence available, Renfrew contends that the original Indo-European language, closely related to Hittite, separated after 6500 BC, with the IE languages of western Europe developing from western Anatolia and those of Iran, India, and Pakistan from the eastern division.

  • But he was sufficiently wary of the formidable strength of the Hittite Empire to make peace with the next king, Hattusili III.

  • During the Empire Period, an ambitious Hittite king, Mutawallis, defeated the forces of the Egyptian pharaoh, Ramses II, at Kadesh (Syria) in 1285 b.c.


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