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Example sentences for: ceded

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It was dropped at the court of Gaelic kings in favour of English about 900 years ago, perhaps to please an English queen or perhaps to ensure the retention of the English-speaking half of Northumbria ceded to Scotland.
In 1670 the Spanish officially ceded Jamaica to British rule as part of the Treaty of Madrid, and the British began a systematic process of settlement, offering land and aid to prospective settlers.
If it has ceded to Milan its place as Italy’s fashion capital, the old Renaissance city is still a center of exquisite, if classic, elegance.
Mono sound equipment brings back the days when the phonograph rested in the den instead of in the home entertainment center, when quadraphonic might have been a malapropism for something in The Phantom of the Opera . Other backwords involve longer journeys in time: straight razors were the only razors around until the emergence of safety razors, which have in turn ceded precedence to the injector-blade and finally the twin-blade.
The landings were launched from bases ceded to the Japanese by Marshal Pétain’s French colonial officials in Indochina and backed up by new high-performance fighter planes.