Example sentences for: enclave

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

  • According to the ST , "Acehnese separatism is fuelled by popular anger against Jakarta for taking more than it returns to the resource-rich province, and by Acehnese insistence that they are an Islamic enclave distinct from the Javanese who dominate the central government."

  • A newly unified Christian Spain under the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, completed the Reconquest, defeating the only Moorish enclave left on the Iberian peninsula, Granada, in 1492.

  • This small residential enclave, shaded by banyan trees, was the closed community of the foreign colony in the era of the Western “concessions.”

  • In fact, this office, an enclave of the White House, represents a barely detectable portion of the drug-policy budget.

  • Once Clinton ruled out an "enclave," anonymous senior administration officials came up with a new phrase for the NATO-guarded territory to which the Kosovars would return: an "international protectorate."


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