Example sentences for: firth

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

  • Even here the Waters are really little more than a large stream, but they flow into the Firth of Forth and beyond into the North Sea.

  • Even after Hadrian’s Wall was built in the second century a.d. , marauding bands from the north figured out a way to circumvent this formidable line of defense by launching their boats across the Solway Firth, landing on the coast of Cumbria south of the Wall, and attacking the Romans from behind.

  • If your children are tired of trudging city streets, take a ride to Portobello (on the Firth of Forth), where the long sandy beach offers a perfect environment for long walks, kite flying, or wading and swimming in the sea.

  • The logistical problems of spanning the Firth were numerous, but their solution resulted in one of the greatest engineering achievements of the Victorian era, the Forth Railway Bridge.

  • They consolidated their gains by building Antonine’s Wall across the waist of Scotland between the Firth of Forth and the River Clyde in about a.d. 150.


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