Example sentences for: dili

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

  • In Australia, whose army is heading the peacekeeping force in East Timor, the Sydney Morning Herald led Wednesday on the discovery by Australian troops of the tortured bodies of 30 people in a well behind the home in Dili of the East Timorese independence leader Manuel Carrascalao.

  • (Probably not the one into Dili.

  • In London, the Times ran a front-page eyewitness piece by Marie Colvin from inside the U.N. compound in Dili about the desperation of the East Timorese who know they are about to be abandoned.

  • The evening newspaper Terbit ran a photograph of charred bodies in a burnt-out truck in Dili with a caption saying they had been set alight by Australian troops, whereas the foreign media all reported that they were victims of militia terror.

  • Still reporting from Dili, the SMH 's Murdoch said that East Timor might face a new wave of violence because of the collapse of Indonesia's military command structure.


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