On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Stele. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as stela or stone and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Stele meaning
- An upright (or formerly upright) slab containing engraved or painted decorations or inscriptions; a stela.
- Any carved or engraved surface.
- An acroterion, the decoration on the ridge of an ancient Greek building such as a temple.
Using Stele
- The main meaning on this page is: An upright (or formerly upright) slab containing engraved or painted decorations or inscriptions; a stela. | Any carved or engraved surface. | An acroterion, the decoration on the ridge of an ancient Greek building such as a temple.
- Useful related words include: vascular tissue, stela, stone, antiquity.
- In the example corpus, stele often appears in combinations such as: the stele, stele of, stele is.
Context around Stele
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 5 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Stele
- In this selection, "stele" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, art, massive, shaba, media, bearing and told stand out and add context to how "stele" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a massive stele bearing an and a stele is dedicated. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "stele" sits close to words such as abdelaziz, absolutist and accrual, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with stele
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Art Stele told Global News. (5 words)
Art Stele, media relations officer for Abby PD. (8 words)
Inscriptions on votive stele indicate that many were not slaves but 'free citizens'. (13 words)
Budge (1913) pp. 2–3 The full length of the hieroglyphic text and the total size of the original stele, of which the Rosetta Stone is a fragment, can be estimated based on comparable stelae that have survived, including other copies of the same order. (45 words)
Before the Sultanate A stone tortoise with a stele in memory of Ma-na-jih-chia-na in Nanjing The history of Brunei before the arrival of Magellan's ships is based mostly on speculation and the interpretation of Chinese sources and local legends. (44 words)
Both were in use through the Achaemenid Persian period, but the cursive form steadily gained ground over the lapidary, which had largely disappeared by the 3rd century BC. citation Stele with dedicatory lapidary Aramaic inscription to the god Salm. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
Art Stele, media relations officer for Abby PD.
Li Shangyin, in his late Tang poem “The Memorial Inscription by Han Yu,” described the iconoclastic destruction of a massive stele bearing an inscription written by the philosopher Han Yu.
This Stele was discovered in the Jordanian city of Dhiban (the Arabized name of Dibon).
Art Stele told Global News.
The song which was released on Valentines day was produced by Shaba Stele and Makwinja.
A stele is dedicated to Qos-Allah 'Qos is Allah' or 'Qos the god', by Qosmilk (melech – king) is found at Petra (Glueck 516).
A trilingual stele left by the navigator was discovered on the island of Sri Lanka shortly thereafter.
Battle formations on a fragment of the Stele of the Vultures The almost constant wars among the Sumerian city-states for 2000 years helped to develop the military technology and techniques of Sumer to a high level.
Before the Sultanate A stone tortoise with a stele in memory of Ma-na-jih-chia-na in Nanjing The history of Brunei before the arrival of Magellan's ships is based mostly on speculation and the interpretation of Chinese sources and local legends.
Between 23 March and 8 April, Crowley had the hieroglyphs on the stele translated.
Both were in use through the Achaemenid Persian period, but the cursive form steadily gained ground over the lapidary, which had largely disappeared by the 3rd century BC. citation Stele with dedicatory lapidary Aramaic inscription to the god Salm.
Budge (1894) p. 109 In addition to the inscriptions, there would probably have been a scene depicting the king being presented to the gods, topped with a winged disk, as on the Canopus Stele.
Budge (1913) pp. 2–3 The full length of the hieroglyphic text and the total size of the original stele, of which the Rosetta Stone is a fragment, can be estimated based on comparable stelae that have survived, including other copies of the same order.
Contrasting with the public "theatrical" ceremonies sourced from the I-Kher-Nefert stele (from the Middle Kingdom), more esoteric ceremonies were performed inside the temples by priests witnessed only by chosen initiates.
Figures at top of stele "fingernail" above Hammurabi's code of laws The Code of Hammurabi is the longest surviving text from the Old Babylonian period.
For example, a Greek inscription on a stele (from Itanos ) has been translated as:"Patron set this up for Zeus Epopsios.
In 781, the Nestorian Stele was created in order to honor the achievements of their community in China.
Inscriptions on votive stele indicate that many were not slaves but 'free citizens'.
I p. 34. The Tymbos is now marked by a marble memorial stele and surrounded by a small park.
It was not rediscovered until a Greek worker dug up a stele in April 1863.
Common combinations with stele
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the stele 6×
- stele of 5×
- stele is 3×
- art stele 2×
- this stele 2×
- stele was 2×
- stele and 2×
- stele in 2×
- stele with 2×
- original stele 2×