6 sentences with 'continents'
Example sentences and phrases with the word continents and other words derived from it.
• « Submission to alcohol threads epochs and continents: the orgiastic frenzy of the Carioca carnival or the indigenous rituals that culminate in formidable drunkenness refer more distantly to the alienation and total loss of consciousness into which the Egyptians fell thanks to a precursor drink to beer, zitus. »
• « Although Europeans quickly realised that the Americas were entirely new continents, they persisted in their search for a western route to Asia. »
• « Wars were fought explicitly in the name of conquest of power and territory, often territory spanning multiple continents (as in Britain's seizure of French territory in both the Americas and India). »
• « Until 1914, Europeans exported that violence hundreds or thousands of miles away as they occupied entire continents. In 1914, however, that violence returned to their own in the First World War. »
• « He also showed a special talent for business; he founded 90 factories and companies on five continents to develop his inventions commercially. »
• « Instruments and objects found on the five continents - whose millenary antiquity is not in question - allow us to ensure that we were not the first to set foot on Earth and that others have arrived, much earlier, at our present limits. »