Example sentences for: pharaoh

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

  • Tuthmosis I was the first Pharaoh to be entombed there c.1490 b.c. choosing a narrow valley out of site of the capital as a secret and supposedly safe location for his resting place, cut deep into the rock.

  • Dedicated to Horus — god incarnate in the ruling Pharaoh — his granite falcon emblems guard the temple entrance.

  • IV believed that the statue spoke to him, telling him he would become Pharaoh if he cleared the sand away.

  • As you move further into the complex look for statues of King Tutankhamun and his wife, one of only a few depicting the young boy Pharaoh to be found at his capital.

  • The baby Moses, his existence endangered by the pharaoh's edict calling for all Hebrew sons to be slain, is set adrift in a basket on the Nile before being discovered--and adopted--by one of the pharaoh's wives.


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