Example sentences for: germanic

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

  • Hungarians have always been fiercely proud of their language, a non Indo-European island in a sea of Slavic, Germanic, and Romance tongues.

  • There is, for example, no uncertainly about the derivations of matrimony and mother , both from the Indo-European * matter meaning `mother,' the former through Latin and Norman French and the latter through a Germanic root.

  • The settlement was entered on maps of the Roman Empire, but following Rome’s decline, the land became the domain of various Germanic tribes in what is known throughout Europe as the “Dark Ages.”

  • It is no coincidence that Anderson, the standard-bearer for the Yankee-Germanic tradition in 1980, is of Swedish descent--nor is it a coincidence that in 1984, Anderson, formerly a Republican, voted for Walter Mondale, a fellow Swedish-American.

  • Ibiza, along with the rest of what is now Spain, was invaded and sacked by the Germanic tribe of the Vandals, who occupied the island and quickly imposed their culture.


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