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How to use artefact in a sentence

22 example sentences · noun

Artefact means UK standard spelling of artifact. Example: “It's not a museum per se, but they do have some interesting artefacts.”

Examples of artefact by meaning

nounUK standard spelling of artifact.

  • Here were found an abundant fossil fauna, three hominid teeth and over two thousand artefacts of a type more advanced than those of Pithecanthropus pekinensis.1960, Alan Houghton Brodrick, “The Pithecanthropoids”, in Man and His Ancestry, London: The Scientific Book Club, →OCLC, page 134

More sentences with artefact

  • It's not a museum per se, but they do have some interesting artefacts.From the entry per se
  • This is a valuable artefact and should be treated as such.From the entry as such
  • Physical bookmarks based on collectional artefacts and metadata actions are proposed.2017, Beat Signer, Fundamental Concepts for Interactive Paper and Cross-Media Information Spaces, page 57. From the entry collectional
  • Filing cabinets, shelves, paper clips or poster tubes are introduced as examples of collectional artefacts.2017, Beat Signer, Fundamental Concepts for Interactive Paper and Cross-Media Information Spaces, page 57. From the entry collectional
  • But you didn't go about busting artefact smugglers for a decade without learning something.2014, Ville Vuorela, Nemesis. From the entry xenophysics
  • "It's not over 'til the fat lady sings!" she shouted gathering up her dwarven artefacts.2011, Alicia L. Wright, “Ragnarok”, in Eggs, Butter, Sugar and Disaster, Coulsdon, Croydon: Tannbourne, →ISBN, page 233. From the entry it's not over 'til the fat lady sings
  • Highlights here include artefacts from Switzerland's rich archaeological past and a medieveal treasury.2010 May 17, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Switzerland, DK Publishing, →ISBN, page 162. From the entry medieveal
  • Traditionally, the style of an artefact has been separated from its function.1997, Jonathan M[ark] Hall, Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, published 2004, →ISBN, page 133. From the entry amphora
  • One day while visiting Semira and Ahmed I commented on the Oromo pictures and artefacts displayed in their loungeroom.2002, Greg Gow, The Oromo in Exile: From the Horn of Africa to the Suburbs of Australia, page 25. From the entry loungeroom
  • This is probably more an artefact of where marine tardigradologists have been working and collecting rather than any zoogeographic pattern.2000, Records of the South Australian Museum - Volumes 33-35, page 84. From the entry tardigradologist
  • "After examining the artefacts we'd packed for dispatch.1974, John Brunner, Total Eclipse, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry hyperbomb
  • “If you want to do an analysis of Facebook you’ll get much more money than if you want to look at ancient Greek artefacts.”2020 July 1, Carly Minsky, quoting Ilan Shimshoni, “How AI helps historians solve ancient puzzles”, in Financial Times, retrieved 12 Apr…. From the entry digital humanities
  • Overall the signage at NIE has the appearance being a top-down artefact driven by institutional policy with English set as the default language.2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual…. From the entry default
  • These are actors for whom physical artefacts and even human bodies are 'mashable', contiguous and combinable with the aforementioned forms of geomedia.2013, Heather A. Horst, Daniel Miller, Digital Anthropology, →ISBN. From the entry geomedium
  • Fire masters created technological artefacts such as the torch and the fireplace to conduct their new energy economy, which soon established ecological dominancy.2005, Frank Niele, Energy: Engine of Evolution, page 94. From the entry pyroculture
  • I don't know why people bother to watch Babestation, because the "babes" are in really minute windows which are plagued with MPEG artefacts.2003 January 23, rich a, “Hey, wait, there's a "campain" now?”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet), retrieved 31 Aug 2022. From the entry make the bald man cry
  • The beachcombings – the wood, the metal, the stones – were more than functional, collected and sorted and arranged as things that were lovely in their own right, artefacts.2019, Beth Lynch, Where the Hornbeam Grows: A Journey in Search of a Garden. From the entry beachcombing
  • But these are changes that would modify neither the sets of values expressed in a perissological way nor the non-verbal communication that takes place around the artefact in question.2016, Pierre Lemonnier, Mundane Objects: Materiality and Non-verbal Communication, page 158. From the entry perissological
  • And it is Aurian, child of wizards, swordmistress, who must set out on a quest to reclaim the remaining artefacts of power and destroy the source of Miathan’s power.2005, Maggie Furey, The Eye of Eternity (The Shadowleague; book three), London: Orbit, →ISBN. From the entry swordmistress
  • Instead, mispicks, i.e. large picking errors that occur when ambiguities exist in recognizing the first arrival among multiple events, are expected to produce local artefacts in the final velocity map.2010, Christiane Maierhofer, Hans-Wolf Reinhardt, Gerd Dobmann, Non-Destructive Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete, page 348. From the entry mispick
  • When we encounter an ancient Egyptian artefact face to face, it often produces a strangely mixed feeling of meeting something very different from our own culture, but also very familiar.2010 November 6, Richard [Bruce] Parkinson, “Egypt: A life before the afterlife”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London…. From the entry Ancient Egyptian

Meaning of artefact

  1. noun UK standard spelling of artifact.

Full definition of artefact

Questions about artefact in a sentence

How do you use artefact in a sentence?
Artefact is used as a noun. For example: “It's not a museum per se, but they do have some interesting artefacts.”
What is a short sentence with artefact?
“"After examining the artefacts we'd packed for dispatch.”
What does artefact mean?
Artefact means UK standard spelling of artifact.

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