Example sentences for: holland

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

  • The Irish Times carried no editorial on the talks Thursday, but its columnist Mary Holland wrote on the op-ed page that Blair had "failed, dramatically, to convince the unionist leader [David Trimble] of the need for radical change."

  • Applause for Europa, Europa director Agnieszka Holland's feminist adaptation of Henry James' novel, starring Albert Finney as an overbearing father and Jennifer Jason Leigh as his stubborn daughter.

  • When Louis Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, became King of Holland in 1806, he demanded a palace suitable for his position and requisitioned the Town Hall.

  • On other occasions, the company has seemed more like a "postgraduate workshop for the promising and ill-prepared" (Bernard Holland, the New York Times ). (Click here for a schedule.)

  • Van Gogh the preacher's son, born in a dismal town in Holland in 1853 and dead of a self-inflicted pistol shot to the chest 37 years later, never stayed put.


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