Example sentences for: colonial

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

  • One story has it that traders Jardine, Matheson & Co fired a private salute for a visiting tycoon, an act that incensed the colonial authorities, who felt that they had the sole right to issue such a 21-gun welcome.

  • The names franc and guilder spread only to their former colonial areas.

  • It described his intervention as "merely opportunistic" and added: "In his intrusions into the peace process, President Clinton--a man who took no risks last week--has tried to represent Britain as if it were a colonial power, slowly withdrawing from a Third World 'statelet.

  • When the pair land in colonial America, they hook up with Benjamin Franklin, finding not a parsimonious Puritan but a turned-on, pre-psychedelic party animal.

  • In the colonial setting of Willard’s Hotel, you can enjoy a home-cooked hot meal or salad lunch.


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