Example sentences for: texts

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

  • He called for a new international agreement of the kind that replaced the League of Nations with the United Nations, for it was unacceptable that the United Nations should become "merely a building where people go to complain or engage in Byzantine debates over texts that everyone knows the big powers will be the first to treat with contempt."

  • There are ancient texts of indigenous mythology narrated by the Aztecs and recorded by the Spaniards that very closely resemble the La Llorona legend.

  • They had Greek and Hebrew texts of the Bible, and they used these in their work.

  • In a review of OCEL in the Times Literary Supplement [11 December 1992] it was suggested that inserting asterisks alongside the terms that were treated in their own entries would have helped; that is certainly an accepted and often helpful practice in longer encyclopedic texts, but it tends to interrupt reading and clutters up shorter entries of the kind encountered in the OCEL .

  • Three exquisitely gilded and painted chambers house some 300,000 leather-bound texts in many languages.


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