Example sentences for: dominican

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

  • South of the city center, the founder of the Dominican order is buried in the church of San Domenico, 13th-century but with many 18th-century Baroque modifications.

  • The Braves' foreign players hail from the Dominican Republic and Venezuela.

  • Following a disastrous offensive by government troops on the rebels’ mountain strongholds in 1958, on 1 January 1959 Batista fled the country for the Dominican Republic.

  • "It's a testament to her talent that the novel, while almost unbearably sad, is still a joy to read" (Sarah Van Boven, Newsweek ). The "powerful, haunting" tale (Christopher John Farley, Time ) recounts the life of a young Haitian woman, Amabelle Désir, who lives through a 1937 massacre of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic.

  • In Rome, the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano defended the Dominican order's campaign to beatify Girolamo Savonarola, the fire-and-brimstone monk who was excommunicated, hanged, and burned in Florence 500 years ago.


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