Example sentences for: guanches

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

  • In keeping with their Berber origins the Guanches were cave dwellers, though by no means did all Guanches live in the rocks, and many of the original caves that remain today (for example the Cuevas de Valerón on Gran Canaria) were probably used only for storage.

  • Some say it came from Egypt, others that the Guanches may have devised it.

  • The Guanches are thought to have arrived in the islands around the 1st or 2nd century b.c., probably from North Africa.

  • Legend has it that well before Christianity came to the Canaries an image of the Virgin was washed ashore here and worshipped by the Guanches, who were quite oblivious to its Christian significance.

  • Meet the Guanches.


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