6 sentences with 'describe'
Example sentences and phrases with the word describe and other words derived from it.
• « In their book Beyond Death, Stanislav and Christina Grof cite Van Gennep as the first researcher to define and describe these rites. »
• « The Bronze Age is a term used to describe a period in the ancient world from approximately 3000 BC to 1100 BC. »
• « Christians used the term "pagan", which comes from the Latin paganus, meaning "lout" or "peasant", to describe all worshippers of all other gods, even gods that had been worshipped for thousands of years at that time. »
• « Even in the four gospels that describe the life of Christ, not all of Christ's actions or sayings are easy to understand, and the gospels sometimes offer contradictory accounts. »
• « Luther was elated by the success of his message; he happily accepted the use of the term "Lutheranism" to describe the new religious movement he had initiated, and he was sure that the correctness of his position was so attractive that even the Jews would abandon their traditional beliefs and convert (they did not, and Luther quickly launched a vituperative anti-Semitic attack entitled Against the Jews and Their Lies). »
• « Absolutism' is a concept of political authority created by historians to describe a change in the governments of the major monarchies of Europe in the early modern period. »