Example sentences for: sages

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

  • One theory: Because they're cyber sages.

  • 3 m (37 ft) high, its columns, beams, and cornices are carved with a menagerie of dragons, phoenixes, lions, and tigers in a field of clouds, peonies, Chinese sages, and angels, all gilded and painted in red, gold, blue, and green.

  • When his aides panic over some nugget of bad news, he calms them down by quoting his sages: Lao Tzu, Euripedes, Toynbee, Covey.

  • Two thousand years ago, the sages of the Babylonian Talmud addressed this question in a mysterious way--by offering a series of numerical examples with no hint of the general underlying principle.

  • In a 1793 address, JQA vowed that while "the copious treasures" of fame and achievement "have already been gathered by the hands of genius," he and his generation would still stay true to "the precious memory of the sages."


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