Example sentences for: phoenician

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

  • Located some 130 m (425 ft) above the city, this hilltop is capped by the ramparts of a Phoenician castle reconstructed in the 14th century by the Moors (who went on to build the lighthouse that gave Gibralfaro its name).

  • The Costa Blanca was soon dotted with such Phoenician towns as Elche and Játiva.

  • Much later, the Greeks borrowed a foreign alphabet, Phoenician and adapted it to their needs.

  • In one of his comedies, the Roman playwright Plautus lets a character declaim in Phoenician on stage.

  • They located two wine-holding Phoenician vessels that sank near Israel's coast about 2,700 years ago.


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