Example sentences for: brandenburg

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

  • Berlin and Cölln came together in 1307 in order to lead the Brandenburg region’s defenses and defeat the robber barons who were terrorizing merchants and local peasants.

  • Its Brandenburg rulers tried to befriend both the Protestant and Catholic armies but made enemies of both, leaving unfortified Berlin to pay the price.

  • With his ambition of uniting the states of Brandenburg and Prussia, it was the Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm (1640–1688) who prepared Berlin to become a strong capital, and fortified it as a garrison town.

  • In spite of it attracting occasional protest marches from those who support the political Far Right, this formidable symbol of the united city generally appears at last to be realizing the vision of Johann Gottfried Schadow, the sculptor who crowned the Brandenburg Gate with the Quadriga, a copper statue of Winged Victory in her four-horse chariot.

  • No troops were left to defend the city from its invaders, and Napoleon’s march through the Brandenburg Gate into Berlin kindled a new flame of German patriotism.


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