Sentence examples for were contemporary with from inspiring English sources

At their height, Aztec and Incan empires were contemporary with which of the following European eras?

The pigments were contemporary with that period: the yellow lead pigment in the painting became rare after 1600.

These French prints were contemporary with the better known German Bilderbogen and I could imagine that a Princeton faculty member interested in the history of the comic strip, the cartoon, or graphic novel, could show students their ancestors in two countries that were major producers of nineteenth-century prints for children.

The first, and best, of Winston Mawdsley Graham's Poldark novels were contemporary with Daphne du Maurier's heyday and, like her bestsellers, have always been relegated to the lower end of the literary snobbery spectrum, possibly why both authors' works adapt so well for the screen.

"His techniques were contemporary with the events in "Parade's End" and we wanted the titles to feel as if they could have been produced by an artist at the time," said Alex Maclean, creative director of Rupert Ray, the company that designed them.

"They said all the materials were contemporary with that period, but they can't confirm that it was made in the trenches as we don't have any first hand knowledge," he said.

The catchers were contemporaries, with Fisk spending all of his 24-year career in the American League, and their statistics were similar.

Yet the two men were contemporaries, with sad life similarities: short-lived; childless; and possibly, Auster conjectures, both virgins at death.

The taphocenoses of this stage are contemporary with valley incisions.

It was "contemporary with character," Ms. Panzer said.

At first it was believed to be contemporary with Neanderthals, perhaps no older than 120,000 years.