Example sentences for: basque

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

  • In Madrid, an editorial in El Mundo Wednesday took Primakov to task for justifying Russia's opposition to the bombing of Serbia by citing the example of Basque separatism in Spain.

  • The mainstream Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) recently formed a coalition with extreme separatist parties, prompting Aznar to compare the party's attitude with that of the British and French prime ministers in 1938, who tried, unsuccessfully, to stop Hitler with [territorial] concessions to avoid World War II."

  • Although certain other languages were geographically nearby, it was impossible to establish any resemblances between them, hence Basque, for example, is not classified as being in the same family with other European languages, nor are Hungarian and Finnish, both of which belong to their own group.

  • ' Vasconcear translates `to speak Basque, to jabber.

  • The liberal El País reported that the country's conservative president, José María Aznar, told Congress that Basque separatist political leaders "are closer to the Europe of Kosovo, which represents exclusion and ethnic cleansing, than the Europe of the euro, which represents integration and pluralism."


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