6 sentences with 'description'
Example sentences and phrases with the word description and other words derived from it.
• « Plato attributes a description of Atlantis and its destruction to the Greek sage Solon, who was in Egypt around 560 BC. »
• « The following frightening description is a model of the common elements that all stories of those who have "returned" from other worlds bring: The doctor pronounced me dead and I began to hear an unpleasant noise, a buzzing sound, and I began to move rapidly through a long, dark tunnel. »
• « Galileo built a telescope based on a description he had heard and delighted in discovering previously unknown aspects of celestial bodies, such as the fact that the moon and the sun did not have smooth, perfect surfaces, and that Jupiter had moons of its own. »
• « In short, the Encyclopaedia was intended to be a kind of guide to the whole field of human thought and technique, a cutting-edge description of all the knowledge that a typical philosopher might consider necessary to improve the world. »