Example sentences for: hispaniola

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

  • In 1511 Diego de Velázquez sailed from neighboring Hispaniola with some 300 conquistadores (conquerors).

  • As for the Lucayans, within 25 years all of them, perhaps some 30,000 people, were removed from the Bahamas to work — and die — in Spanish gold mines and on farms and pearl fisheries on Hispaniola (Haiti), Cuba, and elsewhere in the Caribbean.

  • They were repulsed at Hispaniola by a strong Spanish force and decided to take Jamaica as a consolation prize.


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