How to Use pharaonic in a Sentence

pharaonic

adjective
  • That is why so many pharaonic works of art show tables piled high with food.
    — Salima Ikram, Smithsonian, 3 Feb. 2017
  • Its origin story begins with the birth of pharaonic culture itself.
    — National Geographic, 27 Aug. 2020
  • And its artistry would have done any Egyptian proud, with etchings of falcon heads, winged gods, and a head of pharaonic gravity.
    — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2018
  • The pharaonic work being described meant, obviously, many jobs.
    — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 2 July 2018
  • The tomb belonged to the 18th pharaonic dynasty when Amun was the most powerful deity.
    — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Egyptian authorities said the incident was caused by strong winds that forced the balloon off its course above the city’s pharaonic temples and tombs.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2018
  • Their houses, inside the ancient pharaonic-era tombs, and later on top of them, were damaging precious heritage.
    — Peter Schwartzstein, Smithsonian, 11 Dec. 2017
  • The long era of pharaonic generals may persist for many more years before the system finally collapses.
    — James Traub, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2018
  • The old-school Mafiosi are fading into the past, pale imitations of their pharaonic forefathers.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 May 2017
  • Archaeologists poured in, extra suitcases in hand, to delve into the country’s pharaonic past.
    — Peter Schwartzstein, Smithsonian, 24 Apr. 2017
  • Here are some of the most magnificent monuments of pharaonic Egypt — and the ancient world generally.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2015
  • They’re drawn to the pharaonic history and art, of course, but also to the more contemporary galleries and studios that today form Cairo’s design scene.
    — Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Frange the monk lived alone inside an old pharaonic tomb close to the modern-day Egyptian city of Luxor, but even the life of a hermit wasn’t devoid of distractions.
    — WIRED, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Pharaonic chariots and more than 400 young performers dressed in pharaonic costumes paraded along the avenue.
    — CNN, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Aswan was always a frontier town, the last bastion of pharaonic religion, centered on the powerful cult of Isis worship in the temple of Philae.
    — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 18 June 2023
  • Strongmen have a notorious attraction to pharaonic public works, but democratic leaders are said to have the edge in summoning the innovation required to complete them.
    — Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Dancers in ornate pharaonic costumes -- crowned with golden headpieces and holding scepters -- performed to a live international orchestra, as fireworks and drones depicting ancient gods lit up the sky above.
    — Ayat Al-Tawy, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2025
  • In the 1800s, one of Egypt’s rulers pried stones off the pyramids to erect new mosques (though, as far as pharaonic plunder goes, European visitors were greedier).
    — New York Times, 24 Apr. 2022
  • French rule would lift Egypt, then part of the Ottoman Empire, out of tyranny and into prosperity, and modern France would adorn itself with pharaonic glory.
    — Ursula Lindsey, The New York Review of Books, 13 May 2021
  • French rule would lift Egypt, then part of the Ottoman Empire, out of tyranny and into prosperity, and modern France would adorn itself with pharaonic glory.
    — Ursula Lindsey, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Against all odds, von Spreckelsen had emerged as the unlikely winner of the competition, propelled from obscurity in Denmark to the helm of a pharaonic project in Paris.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2025
  • At the museum’s center sits the six-story Grand Staircase with a view of the pyramids and an atrium containing monuments, pharaonic statues and sarcophagi.
    — Charlene Gubash, NBC news, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The officials said the incident was caused by strong winds that forced the balloon, which was carrying 20 tourists, off its course above the ancient city, home to some of Egypt’s most remarkable pharaonic temples and tombs.
    — Haggag Salama, Time, 5 Jan. 2018
  • The Egyptian Antiquities Ministry says the artifacts include parts of five coffins, two statues of cats, a depiction of a human head made of basalt, and a pharaonic mask made of wood.
    — Fox News, 7 June 2018
  • Only one firm is currently mining, but all of them are following in the tracks of pharaonic miners, inspired by one of the most remarkable documents that the ancient Egyptians left to posterity.
    — Peter Hessler, National Geographic, 25 July 2016
  • Taylor reached back to a vague anecdote from Manetho, the ancient Egyptian scholar of the post-pharaonic period who had originated the standard system of numbered dynasties.
    — Jimmy Maher, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2020
  • In southern Egypt and northern Sudan, many farmers still depend on the Coptic calendar, a variation of the ancient pharaonic calendar.
    — Peter Schwartzstein, National Geographic, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Harnessing the Nile flood and keeping the harvests rolling in was as important to controlling the river corridor as defence against usurpers or an ability to exude pharaonic authority.
    — Vanessa Taylor, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
  • An offense against common sense as well as morality, reparations would take from Bubba and give to Barack, never mind if the former is an insolvent methamphetamine addict or the latter a dweller in near-pharaonic splendor.
    — Graham Hillard, National Review, 22 July 2019
  • The functional centerpiece is a six-story staircase, which leads museumgoers past stone monuments and pharaonic statues arranged in reverse chronological order.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025

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