Example sentences for: borneo

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

  • In Sarawak, the best beaches are northwest of Kuching, at Damai, Santubong, or Bako National Park; in Sabah, either at Kota Kinabalu’s offshore islands of the Tunku Abdul Rahman National Park or up at Kudah on the northernmost tip of Borneo; over on Sabah’s east coast try the islands in and around Sandakan Bay.

  • On the great island of Borneo, East Malaysia’s states of Sarawak and Sabah surround the enclave of the oil-rich sultanate of Brunei.

  • Early successes in the Philippines, Borneo, Malaya, Singapore, and the Dutch East Indies enabled Japan to establish the so-called Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

  • Malaysia is divided into two major regions: the peninsula, bordered by Thailand, the Straits of Melaka, and the South China Sea; and East Malaysia, whose two provinces, Sabah and Sawarak, are located on the island of Borneo about 800 km (500 miles) across the South China Sea.

  • Prosperity was based entirely on the entrepot trade: handling textiles from India, spices from Indonesia, silk and porcelain from China, gold and pepper from Sumatra, camphor from Borneo, sandalwood from Timor, and Malay tin from Perak.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast