6 sentences with 'notable'
Example sentences and phrases with the word notable and other words derived from it.
• « The first notable confrontation took place on May 26, 1937, when the United Auto Workers sought - legally - to distribute leaflets at the Rouge River plant. »
• « A notable descendant of Australopithecus was Homo erectus, named after the fact that it was the first hominin to walk upright. It also benefited from a brain three-quarters the size of the modern human equivalent. »
• « The Hittite Empire never recovered in Anatolia, while in Mesopotamia the most notable survivor of the collapse - the Assyrian state - went on to become the greatest power the region had ever seen. »
• « The most notable military innovation represented by the hoplites was that their form of organisation provided a solution to the age-old problem of how to pay highly trained and motivated soldiers: instead of a state paying for a standing army, the hoplites paid themselves and were motivated by civic virtue. »
• « What we do know for certain is that almost no written works survive by female authors - the notable exception being Sappho, a poet of the Archaic period whose works suggest that lesbianism may have been relatively common (her home, the Greek island of Lesbos, is the root of the word lesbian). »