7 sentences with 'skills'
Example sentences and phrases with the word skills and other words derived from it.
• « Spartan girls were allowed to stay with their parents, but were also trained in martial skills as boys, along with the knowledge they would need to run a household. »
• « Thus Muslims, whose literacy was due to the study of specifically Islamic texts, especially the Qur'an and Hadith, readily used the same skills in trade. »
• « Guilds jealously guarded the skills and tools of their trades - everything from goldsmithing to barrel-making was controlled by the guilds. Guilds existed to ensure that their members produced quality goods, but they also existed to keep out outsiders and make the "masters" who controlled the guilds rich. »
• « At the time, Da Vinci was sought after for his engineering skills, overseeing the construction of the naval defences of Venice and marsh drainage projects in Rome at various points. »
• « From the time of the Renaissance, the elites increasingly acquired basic skills, but in the eighteenth century even artisans and small merchants in the cities of central and western Europe sent their children (especially boys) to schools for at least a few years. »