Example sentences for: papyrus

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

  • Today it is possible to buy cheap papyrus printed with gaudy Egyptian scenes in almost every souvenir shop in the country, but some of the most authentic are sold at The Pharaonic Village in Cairo where the papyrus is grown, processed, and hand-painted on site.

  • On the island’s west side, the Fontana Aretusa is a freshwater spring (just steps from the ocean) with black-and-white ducks swimming in its semi-circular papyrus pond.

  • The (mis)information (pp. 11, 183) that papyrus was costly is an undying canard.

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

  • Scraping writing off papyrus irreparably damages the surface; washing produces only a smudge.


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