English example sentences with "Babel"

The biblical Tower of Babel is what architects call a ziggurat.

There is no less confusion there of tongues and persons, than formerly in the tower of Babel.

There is no less confusion of languages and people there, than there was in the tower of Babel.

And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there the language of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all countries.

Tom helped build the Tower of Babel.

They said humanity needs to rebuild the Tower of Babel, I have no comment on this.

"Oh, they never look at anything that folks like we can understand," the carter continued, by way of passing the time. "On'y foreign tongues used in the days of the Tower of Babel, when no two families spoke alike. They read that sort of thing as fast as a night-hawk will whir. 'Tis all learning there—nothing but learning, except religion. And that's learning too, for I never could understand it. Yes, 'tis a serious-minded place. Not but there's wenches in the streets o' nights…"

Translators are daring fighters who attack the Tower of Babel.

I assert, that the tower of Babel was more similar to a pyramid than a tower.