9 sentences with 'incredible'

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

« Dangerous, extraordinary, astonishing and incredible. This is how the British captain James King defined the sport he observed the natives practising when he landed on the island of Hawaii. That was the discovery of surfing, which took place in March 1779. »
« People who have incredible things to tell, and who are surprisingly consistent in their accounts. »
« Through incredible engineering, the hard work of Roman citizens and Roman subjects, and the massive use of slave labour, they constructed remarkable buildings and created infrastructure such as roads and aqueducts that survive to this day. »
« Christianity obviously played a very important role in the history of Western civilisation. It inspired incredible art and music. »
« There is a direct connection between this predictability and the incredible stability of Egyptian civilisation, which (despite new kings and new dynasties and the occasional foreign invasion) remained remarkably stable and constant for thousands of years. »
« Egypt was the envy of the ancient world for its incredible wealth, wealth that was the direct result of its enormous surplus of grain, all fed by the flooding of the Nile. »
« It is important to keep in mind, however, that Egypt remained the richest place in the ancient world because of the incredible bounty of the Nile, and whether Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, Romans or Arabs were in charge of conquest, Egypt was always one of the greatest prizes to be won in conquest. »
« Cyrus II assimilated the Medes into his own military force and then embarked on an incredible campaign of conquest that lasted twenty years, forging Persia into a gigantic empire. »
« He was also driven by incredible ambition; under the tutelage of none other than Aristotle in his youth, Alexander the Great was inspired by the legendary Greek hero Achilles, hoping not only to match but to surpass Achilles' prowess in battle. »
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