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Example sentences for: burma

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

The seizure last week of the Myanmar (Burma) Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, by pro-democracy protestors "achieved precious little to advance the cause of the hobbled pro-democracy movement in that benighted country," the Straits Times of Singapore said in an editorial.
The result: We now happily do business with monstrous regimes in Burma, Sudan, Syria, and China.
From east to west India also covers about 3,000 km, from Arunachal Pradesh and Assam on the border with its neighbors China and Burma to the Gujarat coast on the Arabian Sea.
Its Song Dynasty-style grounds house a priceless white jade Buddha statue in the seated position of enlightenment, brought from Burma.
As frustrating as this might be, it does have one advantage of providing plenty of ammunition for games of oneupmanship ! Personally, I like to keep my friends and associates properly informed and up to date and do not hesitate to correct them when they refer to, for instance, “Ivory Coast” (it is now PC to say Côte d'Ivoire, even in English), or “Burma” (which is, of course, Myanmar, capital city Yangon, not “Rangoon”).