7 sentences with 'shores'
Example sentences and phrases with the word shores and other words derived from it.
• « The Phoenicians established colonies all along the shores of the Mediterranean, where they provided anchors in a new international trade network that eventually replaced the one destroyed with the fall of the Bronze Age. »
• « In time, Greek colonies spread across the Mediterranean to Spain in the west and the shores of the Black Sea in the north. »
• « In turn, the Greeks' immediate knowledge of the world extended to the shores of the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, Egypt and Persia, for these were the areas they had colonised or with which they were in contact through trade. »
• « Critics claimed that it was impossible for him to have gone as far north as he claimed, because northern Greece was quite cold and there was no way humans could live further north than that. In practice, despite Pytheas' journey, the Greek world would still be defined by the shores of the Mediterranean. »
• « Both the new cities founded by Alexander the Great and his successors and the ancient Greek settlements along the eastern shores of the Mediterranean grew and prospered. »
• « Along with philosophy and architecture, the most important Greek import to reach Roman shores was rhetoric: the mastery of words and language to persuade people and win arguments. »
• « At the hospital in Chicuque, Mozambique, on the shores of the Indian Ocean, a voice rudely awakens Anders Mebius, a 55-year-old surgeon from Gavie, Sweden: "Doctor, come here. You've gone into labour! »