Example sentences for: caribbean

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

  • Piper auritum , and Piper tuberculatum , are used against dermatological illnesses in Mexico [ 61 ] . In Puerto Rico and the Caribbean chewed leaves of Piper amalgo are put on bleeding cuts [ 100 66 ] . Caribs of Dominica considered Piper species to be charms [ 16 ] . Hunting dogs were rubbed with Piper species plant leaves when bathed in order to make them "good" in the chase [ 16 ] .

  • Cayo Largo, an island 25 km (15.5 miles) long and the most easterly of the Archipiélago de los Canarreos, might be your Caribbean paradise — if all you’re looking for is a dazzling white beach and clear blue seas.

  • Its opening lines attempt to pry the beauty of the Antilles loose from advertising brochures, that false paradise in which, as Walcott wrote in his Nobel lecture, "the Caribbean is a blue pool into which the republic dangles the extended foot of Florida":

  • The inventiveness of such word-users may also be uncontrolled, a feature of which little account has been taken in analyzing Caribbean language use, the display of diction practised by elderly men on such festive occasions as christenings and weddings, especially the latter.

  • This collection of European and Puerto Rican art, probably the finest in the Caribbean, would be very much at home in any European capital.


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