7 sentences with 'inaccurate'
Example sentences and phrases with the word inaccurate and other words derived from it.
• « There are bugs that "see" by sound. The verb "see" is inaccurate but not entirely: light does not partake of this bat and dolphin sense, echolocation, but nevertheless its users achieve as accurate, thorough, three-dimensional and coherent a sonic representation of things as their sight gives man. And what can the human bug gain from this - a new artificial sense to add to its five natural ones? Reopen the windows of the world to the blind? »
• « Although it proved to be inaccurate, the idea of the four elements as essential elements of nature and health remained the main explanation for many centuries. »
• « Euclid is one of those relatively few ancient thinkers who actually "got it right" in the sense that none of his major assertions were later proved to be inaccurate. »
• « Early gunpowder weapons were ridiculously inaccurate and dangerous (to the user) by later standards - they exploded frequently, were highly inaccurate and took a long time to reload. However, they were also lethal and relatively easy to use. »
• « Despite these advances, European understanding of geography remained very shaky. From 1400 onwards, Europeans had a terribly inaccurate knowledge of the rest of the world. Of course, they knew nothing about the Americas. »
• « Columbus himself had completely inaccurate beliefs about the distance between Europe and Asia - he based his geography on an ancient (and completely inaccurate) account by the Greek philosopher Ptolemy and thought that Asia was not far west of Europe. »
• « The contemporary North American perception of slave life, that of incredibly difficult but not always lethal working conditions, is largely inaccurate because only a small minority of slaves were ever sent to North America. »