Example sentences for: british

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

  • He then annexed about 2,330 sq km (900 sq miles) of land due south of Calcutta to provide rents for the British settlement and to guarantee himself an income of £30,000 per year for life.

  • In the popular mind, the history of Hong Kong, long the entryway to China for Westerners, begins in 1841 with the British occupation of the territory.

  • If the French dictionary was weak on Robinsons, the British and American dictionaries are at least as weak on Lamberts.

  • The British and other foreign presses have also reported it--on the Web as well as on paper.

  • While the earliest, around 70,000 b.c., moved down the Pacific coast to South America, the settlement of Canada began some 15,000 years after, spreading across the continent from the Yukon and, much later, from British Columbia.


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