Example sentences for: cyprus

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

  • The Turkish government said it was freezing political relations with the EU and indicated that it wouldn't attend a pan-European conference in London next March because of the "biased, prejudiced and exaggerated assessments" of its record on human rights, Cyprus, and minorities.

  • On the international scene, the Turkish conquest of Constantinople in 1453 closed Genoa’s Black Sea markets, but competitor Venice worked out a new deal in Cyprus and even a modus vivendi in Constantinople itself.

  • The network included a major business enterprise in Cyprus; a "services" branch in Zagreb; an office of the Benevolence International Foundation in Sarajevo, which supported the Bosnian Muslims in their conflict with Serbia and Croatia; and an NGO in Baku, Azerbaijan, that was employed as well by Egyptian Islamic Jihad both as a source and conduit for finances and as a support center for the Muslim rebels in Chechnya.

  • Copper is from ME coper , OE coper/copor , Proto-Germanic * kupar , and is called cuprum in Late Latin; both Proto-Germanic and Late Latin forms are from Latin Cyprium , the adjective for Cyprus , whence the best copper came in antiquity, which goes back to the Greeks, who called it kupros .

  • This latest admission should help his efforts to get Greece and Turkey to resolve their differences over Cyprus.


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