Example sentences for: cumberland

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

  • In its lovely mountain setting on the Cumberland Sound, this peaceful Inuit town is a good place to buy Inuit carvings — and to start your viewing of harbor seals and the elusive beluga whales.

  • It was a Welsh Celtic tribe that named the northern stretches of this territory “Cumbria” (the area was officially known as Cumberland until 1974).

  • Four hundred of Cumberland’s troops died in an epidemic of yellow fever and dysentery, and the British had to withdraw less than three months after their victory.

  • In 1974 a total reorganization of local government throughout the UK did away with the old counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland and created the larger county of Cumbria.

  • Cumberland Gallatin


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