10 sentences with 'bronze'
Example sentences and phrases with the word bronze and other words derived from it.
• « In the consulting room, he would point out the bronze plaque that would one day bear my name, and in this way the certainty of my profession was engraved in my mind. »
• « The most significant innovation introduced by the Hyksos was the use of bronze (it should be noted that they also introduced horses and chariots). »
• « The use of bronze was very limited in Egypt until the Second Intermediate Period, as both weapons and tools were made of copper or stone. »
• « Using the new military technology of bronze, the New Kingdom was (at times) able to expand Egyptian control into Mesopotamia. »
• « Militarily, bronze weapons completely changed the balance of power in warfare; an army equipped with bronze spears and arrowheads and bronze armour was far more effective than one wielding implements of wood, copper or obsidian. »
• « Most Greek art was destroyed over time, not least because the dominant medium for sculpture was bronze, which had allowed sculptors great flexibility in crafting their works. »
• « Copper was the first metal that mankind extracted from mines to work, and it was man's first step away from stone and towards more refined materials such as bronze, iron and steel. »
• « In the Archaeological Museum in Athens there is a machine built - almost entirely - of bronze. It has 40 gear wheels, 9 movable scales and 3 axles. It also has a central wheel with 240 teeth, a differential and a major axle that started the mechanism and went outside. All this is enclosed in a bronze case, too. »