8 sentences with 'ally'
Example sentences and phrases with the word ally and other words derived from it.
• « A great ally for men to maintain their physical fitness, cycling is a complete aerobic activity that mainly works the legs, especially the vastus externus thigh muscle. »
• « In 415 BC Athens suffered a disaster when a young general persuaded the Athenians to send thousands of troops against the city of Syracuse (a Spartan ally) in southern Sicily, hundreds of miles from Greece itself, in the hope of sacking it. »
• « However, the Seleucid kingdom held out until its remnants were defeated in 63 BC by Pompey the Great of Rome, a former ally and later enemy of Julius Caesar. »
• « In Rome, senators feared his power and called on Julius Caesar's old ally Pompey to put him in his place. »
• « All the soldiers swore personal oaths of loyalty to him, and having conquered Egypt from his former ally Mark Antony, Augustus was revered there as the last pharaoh. »
• « Probably the most notorious Roman defeat was that of the forces led by Crassus, Julius Caesar's ally in the First Triumvirate. »
• « One French territory, Burgundy, even declared its independence from France and became a staunch ally of the English for a time. »