Example sentences for: drake

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

  • At nearby Mountain Top — 1,547 ft (472 m) above the bay, and higher than Drake’s Seat — you’ll find a sophisticated shopping mall and large bar area with almost non-stop daiquiris (they claim to have invented the banana daiquiri here).

  • The first oil well in the United States was drilled in 1859, by Edwin L. Drake, near Titusville, Pennsylvania, a town named for Jonathan Titus, who settled it in 1796 (and wanted to call it Edinburgh).

  • This kind of booty was worth a battle, even though Drake knew the city was well protected by a set of forts.

  • , the opening of the Drake Passage and the cooling of Antarctica) and phylogenetic history have played major roles in generating current patterns in diversity, and tend to emphasise regional (and especially longitudinal) differences therein (Qian and Ricklefs 2004; Ricklefs 2004).

  • Mueser KT, Drake RE, Noordsy DL.


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