Example sentences for: coexistence

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

  • Indeed, so sacred are the Ise shrines that, despite the relatively peaceful coexistence of Shinto and Buddhism in Japan, Buddhist monks and nuns were banned from entering the precincts prior to the Meiji Restoration of 1868.

  • Instead, he called for a single, "bi-national" state based on a constitution (something neither Israel nor the areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority currently has), with "the idea and practice of citizenship, not of ethnic or racial community, as the main vehicle for coexistence."

  • In an era of seemingly perpetual ethnic hostilities, Malaysia can be proud of a unique achievement — the coexistence of the three most prominent peoples of Asia: Malays (mostly Muslim), Chinese (mostly Buddhist), and Indians (many Hindu).

  • Following a conflict in India almost as old as Islam itself, a peaceful coexistence between Hinduism and Islam seems hard to achieve.

  • In an interview with Le Monde of Paris Friday, Foreign Minister George Papandreou of Greece, where 97 percent of the public opposes the NATO bombardment of Yugoslavia, said that sending in ground troops before a peace agreement would have terrible consequences for the coexistence of the peoples of the region.


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