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7 sentences with 'extracted'

Example sentences and phrases with the word extracted and other words derived from it.


• « Digestion is the process by which nutrients are extracted from food so that they can be absorbed. »
• « An antibiotic is a substance extracted from a mould or other living structure, which inhibits the growth of other cells, such as bacteria. It is used against infectious diseases. »
• « Egypt exercised military power and extracted wealth from the northern part of the kingdom from Nubia (in present-day Sudan) to the south, and also established at least limited continuous contact with Mesopotamia. »
• « The kingdoms of Europe up to this point were hardly unified. In many cases, kings were simply the most powerful nobles, men who extracted pledges of loyalty from their subjects but whose royal authority was limited to their personal lands. »
• « Economies were almost entirely local; feudal lords and local kings extracted wealth from peasants, but since there was nowhere to sell surplus food, peasants tended to grow only what they needed to survive, using methods that did not change for centuries. »
• « As described in the previous chapters, the medieval monarchy system was one in which kings were in reality the first among the nobles; their power was based primarily on the lands they held through their family dynasty, not on the taxes or deference they extracted from other nobles or commoners. »
• « The irony was not only that Athens reached its peak during the period of the Delian League and the wealth it extracted from other polis, but that Athenian democracy itself was at its peak: even as it was carving out an empire over the other city-states, Athens was becoming the first great experiment in democratic government in the history of the world. »

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