7 sentences with 'constituted'
Example sentences and phrases with the word constituted and other words derived from it.
• « "Five Dollars a Day" constituted big news that was extolled in newspaper headlines across the nation. It was such a colossal pay raise, it seemed impossible for the time. »
• « He then moved into Central Asia, into present-day Afghanistan, conquering all that constituted the "known world" of that region. »
• « The equites constituted the business class of republican Rome that supported the elites while receiving various commercial and mercantile concessions. »
• « In 1300, northern Italy had 23 city-states with a population of 20,000 or more, each of which would have constituted a huge metropolis by medieval standards. »
• « Free blacks and mixed-race inhabitants of the colonies, once they heard of events in France, were quick to demand recognition of their own rights. Much more alarming to the members of the Assembly, the slaves of Saint-Domingue (who constituted approximately 90% of its population) also learned of the Revolution and its egalitarian promise. »
• « The bourgeoisie constituted 15-20% of the population of central and western Europe in the early 1800s. »