Example sentences for: cheng

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

  • Completed by the Emperor Yongle in 1420, the Forbidden City (Zijin Cheng) in the center of Beijing was the home to 24 consecutive rulers of China during the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) dynasties.

  • Near the south entrance, in the Round City (Tuan Cheng), is a large ceremonial vessel of green jade presented in 1265 to Kublai Khan, who built a palace here and entertained Marco Polo on these lake shores in the 13th century.

  • Off the beaten path in Sham Shui Po, west of the junction of Nathan Road and Boundary Street, is the Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb and Museum on Tonkin Road (open Monday–Wednesday and Friday–Saturday 10am–6pm, Sunday 1–6pm; closed Thursday).

  • In 1409, under a new directive from Emperor Chu Ti to pursue trade in the South Seas and the Indian Ocean, a Chinese fleet of 50 ships headed by Admiral Cheng Ho called in at Melaka.

  • The best modern prison memoirs-- The Autobiography of Malcolm X , Jack Henry Abbott's In the Belly of the Beast , Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice , and Nien Cheng's Life and Death in Shanghai --are stories about an agony that yields redemption.


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