6 sentences with 'altered'
Example sentences and phrases with the word altered and other words derived from it.
• « Bronze had already been in use for over a thousand years when it became common in Egypt, but when it finally arrived with the Canaanite craftsmen it radically altered the balance of power. »
• « Nowhere was this more true than in Sparta. Sparta had been greatly altered by the war, becoming by necessity a naval power and diplomatic "player" and losing much of its former identity; »
• « Eventually, the Romans altered their tactics and launched a guerrilla war against Hannibal inside Italy, harassing his forces. »
• « The course of the Yangtze Kiang River is being altered by hydroelectric power plants, which have reduced its flow; the Weiho is drying up; and the Hoang-ho, the legendary Yellow River, has a flow of 3 to 4 centimetres less in some areas every year. »
• « But there are cycles in which the direction of the winds is altered, blowing in a west-east direction, which causes the equatorial water mass to move towards the western coasts of South America, inhibiting the cold and regulating Humboldt current, which causes the entire coastal area of Peru to overheat. The Pacific warms and changes occur across the globe. This is the El Niño current. »
• « In the West, such altered mental states were and are studied through drugs, though without much enthusiasm. »