How to Use Aztec in a Sentence

Aztec

noun

• The Aztec’s communion was a stew of human flesh and squash blossoms.
  — Sam Kriss, Harper's Magazine, 2023-10-16
• His parents have stayed busy by teaching their granddaughter Aztec dances.
  — WIRED, 2023-10-19
• Click here for more photos of the 1988 Italdesign Aztec.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 2024-08-09
• With Tim’s background being an Aztec, there’s a natural bond that sparked.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
• The origins of chilaquiles, a Mexican breakfast and lunch staple, date back to the Aztec empire.
  — Shauna Stuart | [email protected], al, 2023-07-24
• The Aztec Trail offers a flexible silicone option with Aztec patterns.
  — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 28 Aug. 2025
• The ship, named after the last Aztec emperor, and its crew are a diplomatic symbol of Mexico abroad, according to the fact sheet.
  — Ramon Padilla, USA Today, 2025-05-20
• Some anthropologists have argued that the process helped spur the rise of the great Mesoamerican societies such as the Maya and the Aztec.
  — Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic, 2024-12-23
• Games like Aztec’s Treasure and Fortunes of Olympus are there to try your luck on, with jackpot totals reaching over half a million dollars.
  — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 2024-04-09
• Hamm’s family were able to identify the unique mixture of Aztec and US military tattoos on his body in a video livestream Guillaume set up from the morgue.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 2025-01-30
• The film is set at the Aztec Corp., a company that auctions off ancient antiquities and semi-distinct wild exotic animals.
  — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 2024-07-24
• Oxford University, founded in 1096, is older than the Aztec Empire.
  — Marilyn La Jeunesse, Parents, 2024-07-15
• Two stages, the mainstage sitting in the City Hall parking lot and a more intimate setting across the street inside the historic Aztec Theater, will hold several live bands throughout the day.
  — Taylor O’Connor, Kansas City Star, 2025-06-25
• The artist — who actually has a high success rate with proposals — submitted an outdoor painting that depicted the city of Denver but in a circular shape inspired by the Aztec calendar.
  — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, 2024-06-24
• Paseo de la Reforma, Polanco) includes major Aztec archaeological finds.
  — Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 2023-12-15
• Why chia is a super seed The chia seed comes from the desert plant salvia hispanica, part of the mint family, and is thought to have its origins in Central America, where the seed was a staple in the Aztec diet.
  — María Quiles, Vogue, 2024-03-22
• Aphrodisiacs of the Aztec and Inca Aztec and Inca societies used a huge number of aphrodisiacs, from peanuts to hallucinogenic mushrooms to insect larvae.
  — JSTOR Daily, 2024-06-24
• However, this is explained by the fact that the people of Teotihuacán did not use these names—they were assigned to the monuments by the Mexica people, who founded the Aztec Empire centuries later.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 2024-07-31
• The gig was a nationwide endorsement tour in a high visibility campaign effort to help generate sales for the universally unpopular and aesthetically hideous Aztec.
  — EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
• Townsend, who based her work on Nahuatl-language annals or histories, aims to course-correct our understanding with a comprehensive study of the culture and civilization of the Aztec, or Mexica, people.
  — Erik Pedersen, Orange County Register, 2024-01-26
• Promising an alternate take on the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, but also opening up about his protagonist’s surprising yet apparently historically accurate look.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 2023-06-15
• Pyramids in Mesoamerica, such as those built by the Maya, Aztec and Teotihuacán civilizations, were monumental structures often used for religious and ceremonial purposes.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 2024-12-08
• Indigenous people in the Americas, including the Maya and Aztec civilizations, built structures resembling ziggurats, the encyclopedia said.
  — Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 2024-07-19
• That happened when the expansionist Aztec Empire decided to re-engineer Lake Xaltocan for salt production in the 14th century and rendered its chinampas unusable.
  — Chelsea Fisher, The Conversation, 2024-02-26
• Down on the hotel’s main floor at The Betty, be sure to try their new Oaxacan Old Fashioned (Ocho Reposado Tequila, Banhez Mezcal, agave nectar & Fee Brothers Aztec Chocolate Bitters).
  — Katie Kelly Bell, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025