Example sentences for: burgh

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

  • Edinburgh emerged as Scotland’s main political center and was declared by James III (1460–1488) to be “the principal burgh of our kingdom.”

  • There is a successful pop ballad called “Lady in Red” that worries me every time I hear it because the singer, Mr. de Burgh, has to struggle through three lines ending with the words chance, dance , and romance . As far as I can recall, he pronounces chance with a sharp “a,” and dance with a long “a,” and then he finds himself in the disastrous position of having to pronounce romance with a long “a,” too.

  • Canongate derived its name from an edict by David I (1124–1157), founder of the Abbey of Holyrood, who granted a right to raise a gate between the abbey and the Royal “burgh” of Edinburgh.

  • The town became the “principal burgh” of the kingdom during the reign of James III (1460­–1488), and in the following years it blossomed.


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