Sentence examples for ancient means from inspiring English sources

For this mega-Crufts is the sort of show where you can imagine jealous rivals settling scores with ancient means.

During an epic evening at Saison in San Francisco, I was often amazed by the way Joshua Skenes coaxed extra flavor from his ingredients through ancient means like dry-aging, curing, fermenting, smoking and grilling over fire.

LAUREL GRAEBER ABACUS AFTERNOONS (Tomorrow Todayy's children may have grown up on calculators, but these workshops, part of the "Living Arts" program at the Museum of Chinese in the Americas, will introduce them to the fun of a far more ancient means of computing.

Sometimes people say to me, "why should I read a poem?" There are plenty of answers, from the profound – a poem is such an ancient means of communication that it feels like an evolutionary necessity – to the practical; a poem is like a shot of espresso – the fastest way to get a hit of mental and spiritual energy.

LAUREL GRAEBER ABACUS AFTERNOONS (Saturday) Today's children may have grown up on calculators, but these workshops, part of the "Living Arts" program at the Museum of Chinese in the Americas, will introduce them to the fun of a far more ancient means of computing.

In others, China being a perfect example, the ancient means of sedentary cultivation were gradually transformed into much more productive ways of growing crops.

What did the ancients mean by mechanics?

Thus, the speaker who (regularly) uses 'arcane' in accordance with the standard meaning of 'ancient', means ancient and not arcane by her expression (Davidson 1986).

The word, derived from ancient Greek, means to speak freely or boldly.

The discovery of such ancient copulation means that sex with internal fertilisation evolved early on in the history of vertebrates but was then lost, with fish reverting back to spawning in water, and then evolved again in a different way.

In Patras, in the Peloponnese, a network called Ovolos, named after an ancient Greek means of currency, was founded in 2009 and includes a local exchange currency, a barter system and a so-called time bank, in which members swap services like medical care and language classes.