Sinope
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Part hobo, part insult comic, part performance artist, Diogenes flaunted his disregard for convention in ways that scandalized the bourgeoisie of Athens and, later, Corinth, after his banishment from Sinope became permanent.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
These stories tell us that Diogenes was chased out of his native Sinope, on the north coast of what’s now Turkey, for his supposed role in a scheme to debase the city’s currency.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
Ionians founded Miletus, which, in turn, founded Sinope, which, eventually, colonized Trebizond.
From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2024
Diogenes himself was born a citizen of the Greek town of Sinope, in what is now coastal Turkey.
From BBC • Oct. 28, 2016
As it grew dark we moved off picking up some others of the akhardash shortly afterwards, and took a line which would bring us towards the coast while at the same time approaching Sinope.
From A Kut Prisoner by Bishop, H. C. W.
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