Example sentences for: bosphorus

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

  • In the words of the 16th-century French traveller Pierre Gilles: “The Bosphorus with one key opens and closes two worlds, two seas. ”

  • Just as the Bosphorus separates Asia from Europe, so the inlet called the Golden Horn separates the old Istanbul from the new.

  • Istanbul owes its long-held historical significance to a stra­tegic location at the mouth of the Bosphorus.

  • Part of the city’s allure is its setting, where Europe faces Asia acr­oss the winding turquoise waters of the Bosphorus, making it the only city in the world to bridge two continents.

  • The huge fortress of Rumeli Hisarı on the Bosphorus was built in just four months in 1452.


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