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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.