Example sentences for: lydia

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

  • There were two cities in Asia Minor called Magnesia : one was in the Kingdom of Lydia on the river Hermos below Mt. Sipylon; the other, usually called Magnesia on the Maiander [Meander river], was in the region called Ionia.

  • Mr. Grant, really quite glad of an excuse to dismount, offered his cock to Lydia, who immediately flung a leg over it, explaining that she had put on a frock with pleats on purpose, as she always felt sick if she rode sideways.

  • With Lydia defeated, the Greek coastal cities lay open to the Persians, who swiftly incorporated them into their empire.

  • Even St. Paul, later the unregenerate prophet of female inferiority, was forced to acknowledge the help he received from Lydia, the seller of purple dyes in Philippi.

  • In an Oct. 9 telephone interview, I asked one of them, Lydia Cathey, if Jones described what Clinton had done.


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