Example sentences for: berliners

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

  • The gate was left isolated in no-man’s land when the Wall went up, and subsequently became the scene of quite ecstatic celebrations when it came down, though now you would scarcely believe it as Berliners cross nonchalantly from east to west through Brandenburg’s mighty central arch.

  • Friedrich Wilhelm I (1713–1740) despised the baroque glitter of his parents’ court, and subjected the previously easy-going Berliners to a frugal, rigid concept of Preussentum (Prussianness), that is, unquestioning obedience to the ruler and his administrators, and sharply defined class distinctions, affirming the supremacy of the aristocracy and officer class and that of soldiers over civilians in general.

  • Crossing points were established for foreigners and for West Germans, but not for Berliners, until a tiny few were allowed across much later in the Cold War confrontation.

  • The independent spirit of the Berliners was felt during the Reformation in the 16th century.

  • The celebrations at the Brandenburg Gate, it added, "could not obscure the fact that few, if any, Berliners tried to recapture the careless rapture of the event."


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