8 sentences with 'dispersed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word dispersed and other words derived from it.
• « The energy stored in the storm cloud is then dispersed in the form of a "stepped guide"; that is, it forms a network of angular currents, too faint to be detected by the human eye. When one of them comes snaking about 30 meters above the ground, the earth can take no more and lets out a monstrous "bounce discharge", a tremendous emission of light that shoots upward along the path opened by the guide into the cloud. »
• « As they continued to practice Judaism and maintain Jewish traditions, the notion of a people dispersed in different lands but still united by culture and religion emerged. »
• « The Jews went from being ruled by the Persians to the Greeks and the Romans (although they occasionally became independent for a time), and eventually dispersed throughout the Roman Empire. »
• « The result was a "mobile tradition" of Judaism in which Jews could travel anywhere and take their religion with them. This would be important in the future, when the Romans forcibly removed them from Judea and dispersed them throughout Europe and North Africa. »
• « Antony and Cleopatra's forces were already quite dispersed and weak from a disastrous campaign against the Persians a few years earlier. »
• « In a rainbow, as the light has been dispersed in a conical form, the observable reflection is a semicircle, but if the earth's surface did not exist, we would see the rainbow as it is, a complete circumference. »
• « Near the city, in the so-called Perdriel farm, armed men began to gather, who were attacked and dispersed by English forces, but at the cost of suffering a significant number of dead and wounded. Meanwhile, also in Montevideo, a plan was being thought of to help the compatriots on the western side of the river. »
• « On 28 June 1807, the invaders disembarked in the Barragán inlet and began their advance on Buenos Aires. Commander Liniers waited for them by the Riachuelo, at the Gálvez Bridge (now Prilidiano Pueyrredón Bridge), but the British avoided meeting him by crossing the Burgos Pass (now Alsina Bridge). The British marched as far as the Corrales de Miserere, where they were overtaken on 2 July by Liniers' troops, who dispersed after fighting with little luck. »