7 sentences with 'presses'
Example sentences and phrases with the word presses and other words derived from it.
• « Likewise, once new printing presses were built in cities and towns outside Meinz, it became cheaper to buy a printed Bible than one written in the scribal tradition. »
• « Printing spread rapidly. Within about twenty years there were printing presses in all the major cities of western and southern Europe. »
• « Printing presses tended to operate in large cities and smaller independent towns, especially in the Holy Roman Empire. »
• « In areas with relatively relaxed censorship, such as the Netherlands and Switzerland, numerous small presses operated during the 18th century, producing illegal literature. »
• « Simultaneously, new and more advanced printing presses and cheaper paper made newspapers and magazines available to a mass reading public. This encouraged the spread not only of information and news, but also of shared written languages. »
• « A printing press owner was delighted when another company wanted to buy one of his used presses. After careful mathematics, he settled on a price of $2.5 million and made his case. »
• « The first time Plotkin flew to Kwamalasamutu in 1982 with his backpack and plant presses, the Tyrians greeted him with suspicion. They called him pananakiri, which means "stranger". »