How to Use Hittite in a Sentence

Hittite

noun

• An imposing castle in the city of Gaziantep in southeastern Turkey, which sits on a site that can be traced back to the ancient Hittite empire, has been left in ruins by Monday's devastating earthquake.
  — Aina J. Khan, NBC News, 2023-02-06
• Its four floors are filled with jewelry, sculptures, sarcophagi and other objects, including the Hittite treaty tablet, in handsome exhibition spaces surrounding an airy and brightly lit 50-foot atrium.
  — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 2022-02-23
• With further analogues in Scythian, Latvian, and Hittite, many researchers now think that the early Indo-Europeans prayed to a sky father known as something like Dyeus Puhter.
  — Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
• In the Late Bronze Age, when a combination of earthquakes, drought, and trade disruption ended the Egyptian, Mycaenaean, and Hittite empires, those who survived began to get healthier and taller, Kemp writes.
  — Linda Kinstler, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2025
• Cuneiform tablets suggest the textile industry was highly sophisticated during the Bronze Age, the Old Assyrian Colony Period, and the Hittite Empire; however, physical traces rarely survive, as per a study.
  — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 22 Feb. 2026