[
US
/səˈbin/
]
NOUN
- a member of an ancient Oscan-speaking people of the central Apennines north of Rome who were conquered and assimilated into the Roman state in 290 BC
- a river in eastern Texas that flows south into the Gulf of Mexico
ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to or characteristic of the Sabines
How To Use Sabine In A Sentence
- Or the code can be brutally direct, as it is in Poussin's Rape of the Sabine Women, whereby the artist constructs a theater of heterosexual rape with a pictorial homosocial subtext--filling the intervals between male figures with the commutable spoils of swords, horses, and--yes--women, signifying an apparent hetero-male structure of commodity overlaid an otherwise evocative, but implicit, homoerotic voyeurism and phenomonology. G. Roger Denson: XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide
- Sabine chuckled at Hettiahs statement, then her expression instantly turned cold when she faced her brother. Kiss of a Demon King
- For the disinfecting power of verbena (_myrtea verbena_) see Pliny xv. 119, where it is said to have been used by Romans and Sabines after the rape of the Sabine virgins. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
- The first glimpse of Antarctic land, Sabine and the great mountains of the Admiralty Range. The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913
- Germain's novel opens with the arresting image of Sabine, a middle-class mother concealing a rug impulsively stolen from the Christmas sales: "Her silhouette large and bell-like, her legs like two clappers which despite their brisk to-and-fro produce no sound". Hidden Lives by Sylvie Germain, translated by Mike Mitchell – review
- While the tranquil Sabine Farm is his delight, well he knows that on the dark trail ahead of him, even Sabine Farms are not sequacious. The Precept of Peace
- In a small booklet entitled Buchenwald: A Tour of the Memorial Site that he wrote with his wife, archivist Sabine Stein, is a description of what came to be called Special Camp No. 2, one of several internment facilities maintained by Soviet forces in Germany during the aftermath of the war. The Lampshade
- He also had a working association with the civil engineer Robert Sabine, one of the pioneers of transatlantic telegraphy.
- At 9 a.m. on January 7, Mount Sabine, a mighty peak of the Admiralty Range, South Victoria Land, was sighted seventy – five miles distant. South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917
- The wine label repeated the same words in a floridly ornate script overprinted on a picture, which Sabine recognised instantly.
