Example sentences for: drake

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

  • Drake’s Seat, thought to mark the spot where Francis Drake sat and watched ships moving to and from San Juan, offers breathtaking views of the northern coastline and Magens Bay, the site of what is probably the best beach on St. Thomas, and one of the most famous in the Caribbean.

  • It was the only defeat of Drake’s career; within months he was dead.

  • In 1595 Drake learned that a 2-million-peso gold shipment had just arrived in San Juan aboard a Spanish galleon.

  • “There was a time when almost every winter experienced very heavy sea ice,” Fraser says, “reaching out into the Drake Passage.”

  • In 1579 England’s Francis Drake, during the round-the-world trip that earned him his knighthood, took a break from harrying Spanish treasure galleons and stopped for repairs at Point Reyes (Drake’s Bay, just north of San Francisco).


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