How to Use Aztec in a Sentence

Aztec

noun
Definition of Aztecnext
  • Week and Aztec Nights are canceled and may be rescheduled.
    — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2023
  • The Aztec’s communion was a stew of human flesh and squash blossoms.
    — Sam Kriss, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The 34 points are the most by an Aztec in Mountain West tournament history.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The origins of chilaquiles, a Mexican breakfast and lunch staple, date back to the Aztec empire.
    — Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al, 24 July 2023
  • His parents have stayed busy by teaching their granddaughter Aztec dances.
    — WIRED, 19 Oct. 2023
  • True freshman Miles Heide had his most productive game as an Aztec, and that was before halftime.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Games like Aztec’s Treasure and Fortunes of Olympus are there to try your luck on, with jackpot totals reaching over half a million dollars.
    — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Like all the best slots for real money, Aztec Warrior also has a free spins feature, which is triggered by landing at least 3 Scatters somewhere on the reels.
    — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Why chia is a super seed The chia seed comes from the desert plant salvia hispanica, part of the mint family, and is thought to have its origins in Central America, where the seed was a staple in the Aztec diet.
    — María Quiles, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Oxford University, founded in 1096, is older than the Aztec Empire.
    — Marilyn La Jeunesse, Parents, 15 July 2024
  • Some, like the Aztec and Maya, had hieroglyphic systems, but those symbols offered little insight into the spoken languages themselves.
    — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2023
  • The film is set at the Aztec Corp., a company that auctions off ancient antiquities and semi-distinct wild exotic animals.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 24 July 2024
  • Aphrodisiacs of the Aztec and Inca Aztec and Inca societies used a huge number of aphrodisiacs, from peanuts to hallucinogenic mushrooms to insect larvae.
    — JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
  • The artist — who actually has a high success rate with proposals — submitted an outdoor painting that depicted the city of Denver but in a circular shape inspired by the Aztec calendar.
    — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, 24 June 2024
  • Townsend, who based her work on Nahuatl-language annals or histories, aims to course-correct our understanding with a comprehensive study of the culture and civilization of the Aztec, or Mexica, people.
    — Erik Pedersen, Orange County Register, 26 Jan. 2024
  • That happened when the expansionist Aztec Empire decided to re-engineer Lake Xaltocan for salt production in the 14th century and rendered its chinampas unusable.
    — Chelsea Fisher, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Promising an alternate take on the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, but also opening up about his protagonist’s surprising yet apparently historically accurate look.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 15 June 2023
  • Paseo de la Reforma, Polanco) includes major Aztec archaeological finds.
    — Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Indigenous people in the Americas, including the Maya and Aztec civilizations, built structures resembling ziggurats, the encyclopedia said.
    — Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 19 July 2024

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