Example sentences for: canaries

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

  • Slave traders, treasure seekers, and missionaries all followed in Lanzarotto’s wake, but it was not until 1402 that the European conquest of the Canaries began in earnest.

  • The most recent major crop to come from the Canaries is bananas.

  • Each of the Canaries boasts some connection with Columbus, who came to the islands because they were then the world’s most westerly charted points and therefore the last stopping point before venturing into the unknown.

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

  • The Canaries’ first major agricultural enterprise was sugar.


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