Example sentences for: gama

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

  • The most significant expedition under Manuel’s flag was Vasco da Gama’s legendary sea voyage from Lisbon in the summer of 1497 — immortalized in The Lusiads (1572), the epic poem by Portugal’s national poet, Luís de Camões (1524–1580).

  • One source quoted a senior member of the Gama'at al-Islamiyya (IG) saying that, as of late October, the IG had completed planning for RESPONSES TO AL QAEDA'S INITIAL ASSAULTS 129 an operation in the US on behalf of Bin Ladin, but that the operation was on hold.

  • Rounding what is now known as the Cape of Good Hope, da Gama found what Columbus had been searching for in 1492 (although in the wrong direction): the sea-route to the lucrative spices of the East.

  • Down on the Malabar coast, the great Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama landed in 1498, paving the way for his countrymen to form a settlement in Goa.

  • The church and its double-decker cloister survived the 1755 earthquake, and in addition to royal tombs holds the relics of national heroes Vasco da Gama and the poet Luis de Camões.


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