6 sentences with 'amassed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word amassed and other words derived from it.
• « Many of the beneficiaries of the new wealth of the 16th and 17th centuries were not nobles but wealthy city merchants, especially in places like the Dutch Republic and, later, England, men who amassed enormous fortunes but who did not fit neatly into the existing power structure of landed nobles, the church and the common people. »
• « After the Big Bang, galaxies, stars, planets and then life were created. All amassed from the same matter that, perhaps, is crumbling, disintegrating into lighter particles that shoot off at certain angles. If true, the cosmos will disappear into nothingness as it began: turned into light. »
• « General William Howe, commander-in-chief of British forces in America, amassed thirty-two thousand troops on Staten Island in June and July 1776. His brother, Admiral Richard Howe, controlled New York harbour. Command of New York City and the Hudson River was his objective. »
• « William Ellison, another free black who amassed great wealth and power in the South, was born a slave in 1790 in South Carolina. »
• « He amassed an enormous estate; in 1850, he owned more than 1,800 slaves. When he died in 1851, he left an estate of over two million dollars (approximately 63 million dollars in 2014). »