Sentence examples for fragile artifacts from inspiring English sources

Only five of these fragile artifacts survive; four are in the show.

Fragile artifacts of different composition, weight and size were stored haphazardly in a variety of boxes, most over-filled.

In late 2003, Haber and Fadeyev wrote a paper called "Reconstruction of Mechanically Recorded Sound by Image Processing," in which they described how their work might be used to make digital copies of fragile artifacts.

The Morgantina silver is set to return to New York in 2014, but several archaeologists here suggested that the fragile artifacts were put at risk every time they traveled.

Such dedication to the fragile artifacts of a vanquished company may sound peculiar.

Of all the precious and fragile artifacts in museums, silk clothing and artwork can pose the most puzzles for historians.

The Shorter OED defines "ephemera" as an item "of short-lived interest or use … collectible items originally expected to have only short-term usefulness or popularity". A fragile artifact can be defined as ephemeral, but similarly, if its content is slight, its format or genre perceived as trivial, or it reflects contemporary events of passing interest, it can be considered ephemeral.

Today when I run into someone who isn't ethically challenged, I feel like an archeologist who has discovered a fragile artifact from a lost civilization.

But until recently, food and drink were considered at best an afterthought, and at worst a messy menace to the often-fragile artifacts in the exhibition rooms.

Meanwhile, the tourist submarines have a history of damaging delicate artifacts and bumping into the increasingly fragile wreck, threatening to accelerate its demise.

This Baltimore matron's flag, the Star-Spangled Banner, which was so large that the sewing had to be completed on a brewery floor, is also among the most fragile of national artifacts, first torn when the British bombarded Fort McHenry during the War of 1812.