6 sentences with 'advance'
Example sentences and phrases with the word advance and other words derived from it.
• « He continued to advance into India for several months, following the southern Indus, but eventually his loyal but exhausted troops refused to move on. »
• « In addition, a major advance in navigation took place in the time of Augustus, when the Romans learned to sail across the Indian Ocean using the monsoon winds to reach western India. There they could trade Chinese silk at much better prices. »
• « After Constantine's conversion, being Christian became a way to advance in the Roman power structure, and eventually it became an obligation to remain polytheistic. »
• « In patronage, a member of the popoli grossi (wealthy Italian people) would pay an artist in advance for a work of art. »
• « The seizure of Bengal began the slow advance of British power: tax revenues supplemented mercantile income, allowing the British to hire tens of thousands of sepoys (Indian mercenaries), who were armed with modern European weapons. »
• « Thus, the first great discoveries of the Scientific Revolution had to do with astronomy, as scholars began to make their own observations and advance theories to explain what they saw happening in the heavens. »