How to Use codex in a Sentence

codex

noun

• The only thing that can free him is a codex (which looks like a little glowing, swirling gem), which, because this is ostensibly a movie about Venom, is actually part of Venom’s body.
  — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
• 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
• As per the complex centuries-old Parisian dress codex, there are three ways to do costume at any Paris fashion week.
  — Guy Martin, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024