Sentence examples for darius from high-quality English sources.

• “You too hot,” Darius concludes.

• Darius fled from the battlefield.

• The man who defeated Darius, Alexander the Great, locked his most treasured possession – the works of Homer – inside it.

• Darius rose up, blinking, gasping.

• Certain modern historians consider that Darius, who…

• He did so, and Darius was questioned but not arrested.

• Darius caught a lot of grief—“Your daddy’s a jailbird!”

• Darius had kicked one of them loose and then picked it up.

Use darius in a sentence.

• Darius stated that thereupon Cambyses “died his own death,” meaning…

• Darius fled from the field, abandoning his mother, wife, and children.

• Throughout his reign Darius was forced to suppress revolts in the empire.

• This Magian had destroyed cultic shrines, āyadanas, which Darius restored.

• After a skirmish near modern Shāhrūd, the usurper had Darius stabbed and left him to die.

• Darius was Darius Houston, one of the Sharps to whom Mindy had turned for protection.

• Darius, Xerxes’ father, had abandoned his own invasion after an embarrassing defeat at Marathon in 490.

• When Darius asserted his independence, Bagoas also attempted his murder but was forced by the king to drink the poison himself.

darius sentence examples

• The usurper reigned for only eight months, however, before he was slain by Darius and other Persian nobles suspicious of his origin.

• Later that same year, Darius took the throne after killing an alleged usurper he claimed had only pretended to be Cambyses’ brother Bardiya.

• Darius I, byname Darius the Great, (born 550 bc—died 486), king of Persia in 522–486 bc, one of the greatest rulers of the Achaemenid dynasty, who was noted for his administrative genius and for his great building projects.

• Probably the greatest of the Achaemenian rulers were Cyrus II (reigned 559–c. 529 bce), who actually established the empire and from whose reign it is dated; Darius I (522–486), who excelled as an administrator and secured the borders from external threats; and Xerxes I (486–465), who completed many of the buildings begun by Darius.