Example sentences for: corsica

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

  • Thomas Curley (Bridgewater State College) uses his Account of Corsica as an example of a travel book in the same genre as Sterne's A Sentimental Journey and Smollett's Travels through France and Italy . It is also a tract on political liberty, and Curley quotes the epigraph from the Corsican rejoinder to a Pope in 1320: “Non enim propter gloriam, divitias aut honores pugnamus, sed propter libertatem solummodo quam nemo bonus nisi simul vita amittit.”

  • Off the Tyrrhenian (west) coast are the islands of Sardinia (south of France’s Corsica) and Sicily (off the boot’s “toe”), largest of the Mediterranean islands.

  • This tropical island off the southernmost tip of China, nearly four times the size of Corsica, provides China with coffee, coconuts, sugar, and rubber.

  • The Côte d’Azur and Corsica both have a distinctly Italian flavor, and the people on the northern slopes of the Pyrénées are not so very different from their Spanish cousins to the south.

  • All the French papers led not on Kosovo but on a domestic political crisis resulting from the jailing for the first time in French history of a prefect (provincial governor) in Corsica.


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