6 sentences with 'shaped'
Example sentences and phrases with the word shaped and other words derived from it.
• « The brain neuron is an irregularly shaped cell with almost a thousand axons and dendrites that allow it to make contact (in the manner of an electric click) with neighbouring neurons. »
• « This attitude was shaped not only by all the things the ancients did not understand, such as disease, weather and death itself, but by the simple fact that it was often difficult to live by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which overflowed unpredictably and required constant work in order to be useful for irrigation. »
• « The Assyrians were shaped by their environment. Their region in northern Mesopotamia, Ashur, had no natural borders, and therefore they needed a strong army to survive; they were constantly forced to fight against other civilised peoples from the west and south, and against barbarians from the north. »
• « And, importantly, it was possible to become a good person simply through the study of the classics - all the major Renaissance figures were Christians, but they insisted that one's moral status could and should be shaped by emulation of the ancient virtues, combined with Christian piety. »
• « Slavery shaped the demography and culture of all American societies, and its sheer scale dwarfs any other pattern of slavery in world history. »
• « The invaded countries turned the French democratic principle of self-determination into a sacred right to defend their own national identities, shaped by their own particular histories, against the universalist pretensions of the French. »