Example sentences for: huns

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

  • When Attila died in 453 the Huns were overthrown and the Avars became the dominant power, occupying the region from the middle of the sixth century to the early ninth century.

  • They had wandered a long way from their home east of the Ural Mountains, and fell upon the land with such ferocity that the local people thought they too were Huns (one might be tempted to think this is the origin of the English Hungary).

  • On the military front, the Han triumphed over marauding Huns and the Central Asian nomads, and Chinese sovereignty was extended almost to today’s frontiers.

  • The Gupta empire began to crumble in the fifth century, with the onslaught of the so-called White Huns.

  • The region that would become Poland, a great plain sandwiched between the Vistula and Odra rivers, has been inhabited since the Stone Age by migratory tribal peoples — among them Celts, Balts, Huns, Slavs and Mongols.


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