5 sentences with 'copying'
Example sentences and phrases with the word copying and other words derived from it.
• « Educated by necessity, of whose heretical face so much has been said, some bats end up copying the moth's bite trajectory - as predictable as that of a stone thrown forward - and intercept it "like those friends who never let us fall". And so successful that several moth species adopted other, more extreme evasive manoeuvres. »
• « One of the tasks undertaken by monks was the careful copying by hand of books, almost all of them related to Christian theology (e.g. the Bible itself, commentaries by important Christian leaders, etc.), but some of them were classical Greek or Roman writings that would otherwise have been lost. »
• « In computer terms, those curly-stranded molecules (let's call them RNA) were a programme whose instructions commanded the copying of the same programme by plundering the environment. Since then, life has become more complex while still obeying this definition. »
• « Priests, hidden in monasteries, kept knowledge alive by collecting and copying religious and secular manuscripts, often adding beautiful drawings or artwork. »
• « In 1718 he was apprenticed to his brother to work in a printing press, where he learned to be a good writer by copying the style he found in The Spectator, which his brother printed. »