Example sentences for: highlanders

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

  • In summer, students in the kilted uniform of the 78th Highlanders perform infantry and artillery drills.

  • The Maritimes have been mainly settled by Scottish Highlanders, German Protestants, and French-speaking Acadians.

  • The prince, known as Bonnie Prince Charlie (the grandson of James VII), raised an army of Jacobite highlanders and swept through Scotland.

  • I read somewhere that a girl was given the name Camery because her uncle had served in the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, a regiment in the British army.

  • Idioms are frequently fossilized metaphors: the thin red line , which lies at the back of this piece of wordplay, means the heroic resistance of the few against many, and originally described a regiment of redcoated highlanders at the battle of Balaclava.


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