Example sentences for: sixth-century

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

  • The sixth-century temple is spectacular, with over 40 halls and pavilions which are joined by ornate catwalks, suspended as if by magic on the face of a sheer limestone cliff.

  • The museum’s highlight is a life-size, sixth-century b.c. terracotta sculpture of a reclining couple that was used as the lid of a sarcophagus.

  • It is not: "In the latter Tang dynasty," says the wall panel, "Buddhist images tended to become more ponderous, fleshy, and overly ornate, completely departing from the slender and ethereal beauty characteristic of many sixth-century sculptures."

  • I s it history or blarney to suggest that St. Brendan, a sixth-century monk from Galway, was the first European to reach Canada?

  • It was originally part of a sixth-century monastery complex, but the other buildings were washed away in one of the great floods of the 19th century.


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