Example sentences for: papyrus

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

  • From the hall, a colonnade leads to an immense hypostyle (with columns supporting the roof) hall, decorated with double rows of papyrus columns with beautifully preserved colors, and on to the Court of Amenophis III.

  • In 1903 a Greek papyrus drama fragment from Oxyrhyncus (Egypt) was published in which an Indian appears conversing in his mother tongue.

  • It is attested in Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek, and Latin religious and magical texts preserved on clay tablets, papyrus, parchment, gems, and strips of metal thousands of years old.

  • After a hundred years of research and the publication of 50,000 papyri in a dozen languages the price of papyrus is simply unknown, too many imponderabilia--quantity? quality? size? amount?--plaguing the few references to a price.

  • So, for those of you asking highly technical questions concerning the operation of your personal computers, let it be known across the land that the Shopping Avenger still writes on papyrus.


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