7 sentences with 'copies'
Example sentences and phrases with the word copies and other words derived from it.
• « -What if someone at the airport wanted to check our copies against their originals? -asked one. »
• « Fortunately, the Romans appreciated Greek art so much that they often made marble copies of the Greek originals. We thus have a number of examples of what Greek sculpture looked like, albeit in the form of Roman facsimiles. »
• « So many papyri were used to keep records that old copies had to be unceremoniously dumped in holes in the desert to make room for new ones - enough information about the Ptolemaic economy survived in these dumps to be discovered by archaeologists a few thousand years later. »
• « One advantage it possessed over handwritten copies of the Bible that quickly became apparent to Church officials was that errors in the text were much less likely to be introduced compared to hand copying. »
• « Thus, from the thinkers themselves who participated in the republic of letters to the craftsmen who traded in pirated copies of Enlightenment works, the new ideas of the time permeated much of European society. »
• « One result of cheaper printing and increased purchasing power was "yellow" journalism, sensationalist accounts of political events that stretched the truth to sell copies. »