Example sentences for: anglo-

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

  • But the oldest streets in the modern city date back to the Anglo-American occupation and reconstruction and therefore have such basically English names as: Washington, Lincoln, Palace Avenue, San Francisco Street, Cathedral Place , and so on.

  • While gardeners today make the distinction between heath and heather plants, these words are said to derive by separate paths from some ancient word for wasteland; heath via the Anglo-Saxon, and heather via Norse hadder . In Scandinavia, the plant itself is called lyng or ling , which is a common name in Yorkshire and northern England generally for what the Scots and Irish call heather . Ling is used as a name in parts of Scotland too, but this includes the rough grasses as well as the heathers that grow on the wasterland.

  • But then, half a loaf to the Anglo-Saxons was only half , while a whole one was a half .

  • The riverfront promenade on the left bank of the Huangpu used to be called the Bund (Waitan), from an Anglo-Indian word for an embankment on a muddy shore.

  • Jefferson's claim of unalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence is, to Malcolm, an egregious example of miscegenation, where a Latin word is joined to an Anglo-Saxon prefix.


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