Example sentences for: chang

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

  • The Sui built a stately new metropolis at Chang’an, near the site of the old Han capital (present-day Xi’an, in Shaanxi Province).

  • Defenders call it a "largely episodic collection of great moments that aren't all causally linked in that comforting way we're used to" (Yahlin Chang, Newsweek ). Tom Wolfe, who attacked the book in the literary magazine Biblio on the basis of its title--without having read a word of the manuscript--draws a stinging retort from Kirn in the latest issue of Tin House , in which he writes a lovely parody of a negative review for his own book: "I consider it my duty as the author of this offensive work, to carry even further Wolfe's condemnation in hopes of neutralizing, from the start, a potentially harmful literary contagion."

  • Chang’an Avenue bisects these two sites and forms the capital’s long, wide east–west axis.

  • Located along Taijichang Dajie (the former Customs Street), directly south of Dongchang’an Jie (Chang’an Avenue East), are the old Austrian Legation (now the Institute of International Studies), the Italian Legation (now the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries), the private Peking Club (now the Beijing People’s Congress), and the French Legation and French Barracks (now the offices of the Chinese Workers Union).

  • In Chang’an, extravagant palaces and temples were interspersed with markets stocked with exotica from as far away as Byzantium.


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