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How to use the word Byzantine in a Sentence?

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But I don’t know that I can read 2,000 pages that’s rather Byzantine.

– Mark Meadows

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Christian pilgrims to the Land of Israel from all over the Byzantine Empire (Turkey, the Balkans, Greece and present-day Russia) would carry his icon to protect them from harm, it is probable that the ring belonged to a pilgrim who sought the protection of St. Nicholas on his travels.

– Yana Tchekhanovetz

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Our first thought is that the site is a cathedral or a church from the Byzantine period, during that era, there was a great interest among the Byzantine rulers to build churches in the Gaza Strip.

– Abu Rida

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Currently, agents have to navigate byzantine environmental rules and regulations to access federal lands, removing these restrictions would help untie the hands of our agents to patrol every inch of the border.

– Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Bank of America's structure is so convoluted and Byzantine that looking from the outside it is very hard to identify the correct corporate parties.

– Jeffery Isaacs

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What we hear from startups is that they are facing a tough regulatory environment that is sometimes byzantine, confusing and expensive to comply with.

– Arizona Democratic

Found on CNN
9 years ago

She had fortunately always her appetite for news. The pure flame of the disinterested burned in her cave of treasures as a lamp in a Byzantine vault.

– Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Ninth, Chapter 2

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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