7 sentences with 'dedicated'
Example sentences and phrases with the word dedicated and other words derived from it.
• « He dedicated himself to working six hours a day, and 12 on weekends, outside supermarkets and at bus stops, even in the pouring rain. »
• « Not surprisingly, religious festivals dedicated to Dionysus involved much celebration, and part of that celebration were choruses of song and chant. »
• « The most important surviving piece of Greek architecture, the Parthenon in Athens dedicated to the patron goddess of the polis, Athena, was built to embody the golden ratio in terms of its height and width. »
• « Riding their swift horses and camels and dedicated to their cause, the Arab armies conquered vast amounts of territory very quickly. »
• « Machiavelli dedicated the work to the Medici in the hope that he would be allowed to return from exile (he detested the rural peasants among whom he lived in exile and longed to return to cosmopolitan Florence). »
• « In 1542 Pope Paul III approved the creation of a permanent branch of the Church dedicated to controlling Protestantism: the Holy Office, better known as the Inquisition. »
• « Louis XIV created important theatre companies, founded France's first scientific academy and supported the Académie Française, the body dedicated to preserving the purity of the French language founded earlier by Richelieu (during Louis XIV's reign, the Académie published the first official dictionary of French). »