6 sentences with 'rapid'

Example sentences and phrases with the word rapid and other words derived from it.

« The heat of the lightning causes a rapid expansion of the air, and this in turn causes a great shock wave: the roar, pop and rumble of thunder. That's what we hear. »
« The Umayyads' biggest problem was the size of their empire. Like other rapid conquests, such as that of Alexander the Great 1,000 years earlier, in the course of only a few decades a people found themselves in control of huge swathes of territory. »
« In short, the conquest of the Americas by Europeans was surprisingly rapid, not because the Europeans were significantly more powerful militarily than the Native Americans, but because most of the latter had already died of disease. »
« The Mughal Empire that ruled much of the subcontinent at the beginning of the period of British expansion was in rapid decline by the early 18th century, long before the British controlled much of the territory, and was replaced by many small states in place of a large and powerful one when it finally collapsed in 1739. »
« Peter the Great waged an unsuccessful war against the Ottomans in 1711, but captured some Turkish territories in the process; he also took the Baltic territories of Livonia and Estonia from what was then the unified kingdom of Poland - Lithuania (a state that began a rapid and painful decline over the course of the century). »
« One of the root causes of the Industrial Revolution was the combination of rapid population growth and a more efficient agriculture that provided more calories to feed that population. »

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