silk road

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Indeed, history is filled with examples of this, from the medieval Black Death hitchhiking along the Silk Road to the “Russian flu” pandemic of the late 19th century that was accelerated by trains and steamships.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026

The Polar Silk Road is no longer a PowerPoint presentation.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 7, 2026

But, on the Silk Road for centuries, it is attempting to revive its historic role as a trading hub.

From Barron's • Nov. 6, 2025

After centuries of silence, vampires reappeared at the other end of the Silk Road, in the eastern Roman Empire, in accounts of dead women who preyed upon the living.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

Chiseled into a sun-bleached rock cliff, they peered down at them, as they had nearly two thousand years before, Laila imagined, at caravans crossing the valley on the Silk Road.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini