Sentences with 'compounded'
Example sentences and phrases with the word compounded and other words derived from it.
• « The Jews also struggled with their Greek overlords, a problem compounded by the fact that they were ruled first by the Ptolemies and then by the Seleucids. »
• « Needless to say, the problem was compounded when the Roman Empire found itself divided between rival pretenders to the throne - for a few years towards the end of the crisis period the empire proper was divided into three rival "empires" under rival imperial pretenders. »
• « By 1781, inflation was such that 146 Continental dollars were worth only one dollar in gold. The problem was compounded when each former colony, now a revolutionary state, printed its own currency. »