Example sentences for: scarab

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

  • Stop at the giant granite scarab on the northwest corner of the lake.

  • When Amunophis III originally commissioned the scarab it was placed at his temple on the west bank.

  • He doesn't deserve to have his eyes and tongue sucked out, his brain dashed against the side of a tomb, or to be consumed by scarab beetles or flayed by locusts.

  • Small items, such as scarab beetles — considered a lucky amulet in Egypt — are sold in shops, but also by young children and street hawkers around the archaeological sites.

  • Egyptians consider it lucky to walk three times counter-clockwise around the scarab before touching it and making a wish.


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