Sentences with 'equivalents'
Example sentences and phrases with the word equivalents and other words derived from it.
• « There are Hindu, Muslim, Chinese and Japanese Buddhist and Mesoamerican texts. All of these have equivalents in the West. »
• « The goods produced there, not to mention the quality of scholarship, were of abysmal quality compared to their Arab (or Byzantine) equivalents, so Christian Europe imported numerous goods from the Arab world, often via Spain and Sicily. »
• « He soon abandoned the work, and the French Egyptologist Jean Champoillon took over. After many years of studying the Rosetta Stone, he published a list of the Egyptian signs and their Greek equivalents. The key was the ovoids, which he painstakingly compared in the three types of writing. It also helped him to realise that the text was a translation from the Greek and not the other way around, as was widely held. »