Example sentences for: cornwall

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

  • Another metal, tin—for which the Phoenicians used to sail as far from Tyre and Sidon to the mines on the coast of Cornwall nearly three millennia ago—bears a Latin symbol short for another metallic substance: Sn, for stannum , a Roman-era amalgam of silver and lead.

  • Salty Sayings from Cornwall

  • Although pushiness is not a quality naturally approved of in Cornwall, neither is undue modesty: standing in his own light like the Mayor of Market Jew (another apocryphal figure).

  • What the Italian inventor was so excited about were three faint dots of the letter S in Morse, from his transmitter in Poldhu, Cornwall.

  • In a strong-minded county like Cornwall an individual may be admired as being as tough as Hancock's mother—an archetypal dragon lady rooted in local history.


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