Example sentences for: canaries

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

  • From the Canaries, Franco took off for North Africa, the launching pad for the insurgent right-wing attack.

  • Vela Latina: Lateens, old-fashioned Canaries sailing rigs with triangular sails, race against each other on Saturday afternoons and Sunday mornings at Las Palmas and Puerto Rico on Gran Canaria, between April and September.

  • The capital of Tenerife and the administrative center for the westerly Canaries, Santa Cruz is not a city in which tourists spend a great deal of time.

  • The Canaries were not spared the horrors of the war (mass Republican executions took place in the aptly named Barranco del Infierno, the Gorge of Hell, on Tenerife), but on the whole the islands prospered during Franco’s period of dictatorship, which provided for added protection to their free-port status.

  • The Canaries’ first major agricultural enterprise was sugar.


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