8 sentences with 'brothers'
Example sentences and phrases with the word brothers and other words derived from it.
• « All of them: Bell, Edison and the Wright brothers, personally designed the machines that made them famous; but Ford's achievement was based on the work of others. »
• « In the United States, it was brothers Charles and Frank Duryea who could boast of the first proven demonstration of a gasoline-powered vehicle in 1893. »
• « The Old Testament adds that Ham (one of Noah's three sons, and father of Canaan) "saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers. Then Shem and Japheth took the mantle, threw it over their shoulders, and walking backwards, turned their faces, and covered their father's nakedness without seeing it....". »
• « The legend that the Romans themselves invented about their own origins had to do with two brothers: Romulus and Remus. »
• « The first step towards violent revolution in the Roman Republic was the work of the Gracchus brothers - historically remembered as the Gracchi. »
• « Selim set the stage for his son, Suleiman the Magnificent (r. 1520 - 1566) to preside over the golden age of Ottoman power in precisely this way: Suleiman overtook his brothers when Selim died and promptly had his brothers killed. »
• « That morning, with their film The Watering Can, the Lumiére brothers became the first film directors. Today, more than a century later, we cannot conceive of the world without cinema. »