Sentence examples for great raised from inspiring English sources

"All the great raised altars of the past suggest that the people who built Stonehenge would never have performed celestial ceremonies on the lowly earth," he went on.

Later in the same century, catapult designers working for Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great, raised the stakes in the arms race by improving the weapon with twisted sinews and ropes that acted as powerful springs.

The Western Wall, the most sacred place of worship to Jews because of its proximity to where the last Jewish temple is believed to have stood two millennia ago, is part of the foundation of the great raised courtyard, now dominated by the seventh-century mosque the Dome of the Rock.

You can construct a great raised bed out of junk lumber, so don't be afraid to experiment.

SK: It was a great raise.

"Most single guys' reaction to this is like: 'Oh great, you raised the bar.

The Banqueting House consists of one great chamber, raised on a vaulted basement.

They chanted "God is great" and raised their hands in signs of victory.

How much responsibility is the great question raised by his life.

A child of the Depression and the Great War, raised in privation, Emily prizes thrift and industry.

The great monuments raised over the course of 3,000 years endure – but rarely the details of individual lives.