Example sentences for: africa

How can you use “africa” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • For this patriotic venture against the Moors of North Africa, the people of Porto surrendered the finest cuts of meat in their stores to the navy and lived on tripe instead, thus earning their honorable nickname of tripeiros (literally “tripe eaters,” as people from Porto are commonly known).

  • (The overwhelming majority of cases are in sub-Saharan Africa.)

  • In World War II Hitler and Mussolini recognized that the Suez Canal was vital to British plans, and Egypt — along with the rest of North Africa — became an important field of battle.

  • Yet young and upwardly mobile islanders do go off in search of fortune, and the most successful return from Brazil, Venezuela, or South Africa to build sumptuous villas overlooking the Bay of Funchal.

  • Of all the countries in which English is a significant first language, South Africa is perhaps the most complex socially and linguistically.


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