7 sentences with 'consisted'
Example sentences and phrases with the word consisted and other words derived from it.
• « The initiation trials of Siberian and Uralaltaic shamans consisted of a profound encounter with death. »
• « And, in general, the only fault incurred by the victim consisted in being, by bad luck, in a bad place and at the fateful hour. »
• « Primitive agriculture, the type of farming that made possible later advances in civilisation, consisted of people simply planting seeds by hand or with shovels and picks. »
• « The monumental architecture of the New Kingdom consisted of huge temples and statues, most notably the Great Temple of Abu Simbel in northern Nubia, built under the direction of Pharaoh Ramesses II sometime around 1250 BC. »
• « As warfare is depicted in the Iliad, battles consisted of the elite noble warriors of each side facing each other and fighting face to face, with the ranks of the poorer soldiers as support, but usually not participating in actual combat. »
• « The core of the Persian army consisted of excellent cavalry from the Iranian plateau and Bactria (modern Afghanistan), but these were always a small minority of the total force. »