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:

  • 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 sixth-century barbarians who commandeered the massive round brick pile as a fortress, using ancient statues as missiles to hurl on the heads of their enemies below.

  • East of the city center, the early sixth-century church of Sant’­Apollinare Nuovo was built by the Christianized Ostrogoth king Theodoric.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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