Example sentences for: british-

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

  • 5 billion deal with the British-Dutch conglomerate Shell hard on the heels of its recently consummated $2 billion offshore gas deal with a French company.

  • Black, a Canadian who owns Britain's Telegraph newspapers, Israel's Jerusalem Post , and most of Canada's dailies, had been advised by Canadian officials that he would be able to accept a lordship, for which he was nominated by Conservative Party leader William Hague, if he took out dual British-Canadian citizenship.

  • Two of the more common examples of British-American divergence of usage are screw and knock up . In Vanity Fair (Chapter 39), the niggardly Sir Pitt was not nearly the aerial acrobat your American sophomore might fancy him to be when he “screwed his tenants by letter.”

  • The new North-South council will appease Nationalists, and the British-Irish council will reassure Unionists.

  • A special fashion section includes a profile of the late British-American designer Charles James, a look at high fashion in Moscow (once denim, now foreign couture--that is, until the ruble crashed), and a review of a new Coco Chanel biography.


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