6 sentences with “placing”

Instead of placing the breast forms directly on the skin, as the instructions said to do, I just put them in my bathing suit.

From about 600 BCE to 450 BCE, the Spartans were unique in the ancient world in placing total emphasis on a super-elite, and very small, citizenry of warriors.

Throughout the 19th century a cult of 'sentimentality' associated with family life grew, with middle-class women leading the way by placing more emphasis on the bonds of love between family members.

Fewer independent citizens meant fewer good soldiers, and Byzantium's armies thus became dominated by foreign mercenaries paid out of the imperial treasury, placing an enormous financial burden on the empire.

The name of this way of cooking or heating food, which consists of placing the food in a vessel immersed in another vessel containing boiling water, probably comes from Mary the Jewess, the 3rd century alchemist who invented this technique.

Therefore, the Teutonic Knights could make a very plausible case for their Crusades as analogous to the Spanish Reconquista, and the Teutonic Knights proved to be very astute in placing agents in the papal court who worked to maintain papal support for their efforts.