5 sentences with 'surpassed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word surpassed and other words derived from it.
• « The pianist Liu Shikun, whom only Van Cliburn surpassed in the 1958 Tchaikovsky Competition, was imprisoned in China in 1967. »
• « In Greece, meanwhile, Sparta stood apart as the only polis that surpassed even Macedonian gender standards: Spartan women were economically autonomous, owned two-fifths of the land and wielded considerable political influence. »
• « The Teutonic Order eventually surpassed the other crusading orders by centuries. The order was very successful in gaining the support of European princes and knights, relying on annual expeditions of visiting warriors to do most of the fighting while the Teutonic knights themselves literally held the fort in newly built castles. »
• « The feeling among most Renaissance thinkers and artists was that the ancient Greeks and Romans had achieved truly incredible things, things that had not been, and possibly could never be, surpassed. »