Sample Sentences for
Acropolis
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Acropolis as in:  Acropolis of Athens

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I would like to visit the Acropolis one day.
Acropolis = famous high ground of Athens
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    "Last I saw you," Percy said, "Zeus was chewing you out at the Acropolis."  (source)
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    As the camera zoomed in on the Acropolis Sophie realized that the city must be Athens.  (source)
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    Yet in my mind I roamed the Acropolis at Athens, watching the moon rise through the open roof of the Parthenon, measuring my height by the grandeur of those columns, walking the streets of those Greeks who died at Marathon, listening to the sound of wind in the ancient olives.  (source)
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    They rested, visited the Acropolis, made the usual inquiries about Cacciato.  (source)
    Acropolis = famous high ground of Athens
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    This man, a friend of Jean de Satigny, had transformed his humble raw materials—flour, eggs, and sugar—into a replica of the Acropolis crowned with a cloud of meringue on which rested two mythological lovers, Venus and Adonis, fashioned out of almond paste colored to imitate the rosy tones of their flesh, their blond hair, and the cobalt blue of their eyes; with them was a pudgy Cupid, also edible, which was sliced in half with a silver knife by the proud groom and the dejected bridle.  (source)
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    Harrison, at one point, was standing next to a man named George Despinis, the head of the Acropolis Museum in Athens.  (source)
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    I do not allude to the impulse it received as she gazed at the Pyramids in the course of an excursion from Cairo, or as she stood among the broken columns of the Acropolis and fixed her eyes upon the point designated to her as the Strait of Salamis; deep and memorable as these emotions had remained.  (source)
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    They alone will visit Athens and Delphi, and either shrine of intellectual song—that upon the Acropolis, encircled by blue seas; that under Parnassus, where the eagles build and the bronze charioteer drives undismayed towards infinity.  (source)
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    The rebuilding of the Acropolis and the construction of the Parthenon were the two best known of Pericles' many ambitious building projects.  (source)
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    But now ... "The Acropolis," Jason said.  (source)
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    Could he be the same man who was now standing at the Acropolis in Athens?  (source)
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    When we retake the ancient places, I will cover the Acropolis in snow.  (source)
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    The camera focused on an old theater which lay just below the plateau of the Acropolis.  (source)
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acropolis as in:  buildings on the acropolis

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It was the acropolis of Sparta.
acropolis = a raised area with buildings
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    According to Annabeth, the hill they stood on had once been Sparta's acropolis—its highest point and main fortress—but it was nothing like the massive Athenian acropolis Piper had seen in her dreams.  (source)
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    A vast promenade, mausoleum, acropolis, planetarium, library, opera house—everything marble and granite, everything profoundly clean.  (source)
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    New York makes its own hills with craning buildings, but this gold and white acropolis rising wave on wave against the blue of .  (source)
    acropolis = a high castle (figuratively)
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    They occupy a massive acropolis with fifteen giant columns atop the only high ground, overlooking the pond.  (source)
    acropolis = a raised area with buildings
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    It was the acropolis of the barefooted.  (source)
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    ...a town in ruins, demolished, overwhelmed, laid low, its roofs caved in, its temples pulled down, its arches dislocated, its columns stretching over the earth; in these ruins you could still detect the solid proportions of a sort of Tuscan architecture; farther off, the remains of a gigantic aqueduct; here, the caked heights of an acropolis along with the fluid forms of a Parthenon;  (source)
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    Once it had looked out on the acropolis that rose behind the city.  (source)
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    According to Annabeth, the hill they stood on had once been Sparta's acropolis—its highest point and main fortress—but it was nothing like the massive Athenian acropolis Piper had seen in her dreams.  (source)
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    "Give him back to me," she said, "and I will build your altar at the highest point of the city's acropolis and around it build a temple in which you will be honored so long as Attolia remains."  (source)
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