Sentences with 'prizes'
Example sentences and phrases with the word prizes and other words derived from it.
• « As noted above, there were no second prizes. Greek culture was hugely competitive; the defeated were humiliated and the winners utterly triumphant. »
• « This attitude was a microcosm of the attitude of Europeans towards most of the world at the time: foreign territories were prizes for the taking, the identities of the people who lived in them and the states that ruled them were of little consequence thanks to the (short-lived, as it turned out) superiority of European arms and technology. »
• « Ironically enough, the founder of the prizes, inventor Alfred Nobel, helped bolster the very war effort he later hoped to annihilate. »
• « Under the terms of his will, upon Nobel's death in 1896, annual prizes were established in five fields. »