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Example sentences for: couldn

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In 1670 six Lords Proprietors of Carolina were granted the Bahama islands by Charles II, but for nearly 50 years their weak governors on New Providence either couldn’t or wouldn’t suppress the piracy raging through the archipelago.
Two hundred years ago, after Napoleon sent his army officers to explore the land and bring back the first hand-drawn impressions of half-buried statues and columns, the world couldn’t get enough.
But the heroic characters couldn’t ever be mistaken for the snarling villains.
“ The best ports in the Mediterranean are June, July, August, and Maó,” said the 16th-century Venetian admiral Andrea Doria, noting that beyond the summer sailing season, a fleet couldn’t do better than shelter here.
Conservatism and hostility to foreign ideas, however, couldn’t be absolutely maintained.