Example sentences for: gaelic

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

  • (The Celtic languages are an especially relevant case--not only is there renewed interest in Breton, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh, but there are revival movements for the extinct Manx and Cornish.

  • Unlike the Roman, the Celt left his mark in the many place names of Gaelic origin scattered around southern Scotland to this day.

  • Whether he is relating one in his native Gaelic or in the lilting English that he learned at school, you can almost hear the sough of the sea on far-off, never-to-be-seen-again Hebridean machairs as he speaks.

  • I found suggestions that it is a “metonymic occupational name,” an English nickname or an anglicized form of a Gaelic personal name meaning `life.

  • If this has whetted your taste for things Scottish, end your tour at the southern tip of St. Ann’s Bay, where Gaelic College gives summer courses in bagpipe-playing, dancing, and tartan-weaving.


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