How to Use codex in a Sentence

codex

noun

• View the codex and search its text and imagery at florentinecodex.getty.edu.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2023
• The codex’s trail then went cold for roughly 600 years.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Feb. 2023
• It wasn’t rebuilt—and the codex disappeared for the next 600 years.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
• No part of the codex has ever been seen in the United States — until now.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
• This is believed to be the very first codex, or manuscript in book form, of the Hebrew Bible.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 15 Feb. 2023
• Carbon-dated to the 10th century, the codex has spent most of its life out of the public eye.
  — Benjamin Lima, Dallas News, 7 Apr. 2023
• There's a dungeon to conquer or a town to explore or a new codex of spells to master.
  — Luke Winkie, Star Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
• The codex is on display at Christie's New York and will remain there until April 9.
  — Lucia Suarez Sang, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2024
• The show at the Getty marks only the third time ever the codex will go on public display.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2022
• Fragments of codices had been found at centers of the Mayan elite, but never among the peasant class.
  — Mary Roach, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
• Dating to the fourth or fifth centuries, the codex is notable not only for its age.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
• With its easy-to-count pages and pillow-like form, some monks feared that the codex would distract monks from the content of its pages.
  — WIRED, 19 Jan. 2023
• Two thousand years after the codex and 500 after the Gutenberg press, the book persists.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2021
• Some codices were small enough to be held in one hand, and Cicero claimed to have seen a copy of the Iliad that fit in a nutshell.
  — Claudia Roth Pierpont, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• That’s why Suárez and his team turned to Aztec codices and the accounts of Spanish missionaries.
  — National Geographic, 11 Oct. 2019
• For a certain kind of obsessive magazine nerd, each one is spell book or codex, a key to the deep grammar of the craft.
  — New York Times, 30 Aug. 2021
• Second, the myth is a form – first tablets, then parchment, then a codex, and later pixels – in need of translation and care.
  — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Sep. 2021
• The frame, and the codex, are just an excuse to gather together some tales that folks have long been telling together.
  — Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
• But the style of the depiction is called codex style, a form of pottery very specific to northern Peten area in Guatemala.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2023
• The codex explains that a surface crack measuring 2,800 brazas appeared after the quake.
  — National Geographic, 11 Oct. 2019
• The codex is currently housed in the Biblioteca Ambrosia in Milan.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 May 2023
• Some of these pages exist as loose sheets today; others have been bound into the volumes now known as notebooks or codices.
  — Claudia Kalb, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• The Dresden codex is the oldest surviving book of the Americas.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2018
• Another possibility was that the bark was part of a codex, or Maya book with writing on its pages.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2022
• Gamers can use a codex, which splits the game collection into seven different categories, and then check the shelves.
  — Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic, 24 Mar. 2021
• The codex, or paper book, was discovered by looters in the Chiapas state of Mexico and sold in the mid-1960s to a private collector.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2016
• The codex, previously thought to be the oldest in ancient Greek, was dated to the 11th century, and it wasn’t included in the Bible, according to the release.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 13 June 2024
• But the synagogue was never rebuilt and the codex continued on its odyssey until it was acquired by Sassoon in 1929.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 15 Feb. 2023
• Within some codices, such glyphs are accompanied by dates.
  — National Geographic, 11 Oct. 2019
• What preserves the voices of the great authors from one century to the next is not the recording device (the clay tablet, the scroll, the codex, the book, the computer, the iPad) but the force of imagination and the power of expression.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 19 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024