Example sentences for: independence

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

  • In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, fundamentalists helped articulate anticolonial grievances but played little role in the overwhelmingly secular struggles for independence after World War I. Western-educated lawyers, soldiers, and officials led most independence movements, and clerical influence and traditional culture were seen as obstacles to national progress.

  • The differences have to do with issues such as saving/spending money, independence, and socially expected behavior.

  • The iconic word is surfing: a sociolinguistic cornucopia of connotations of sport, vigor, youth, individuality, speed, independence, leisure, health, and middle-to-upper-class education and affluence.

  • Among the commodities exchanged when foreign ships called were Hawaiian women, who soon gained a measure of economic independence through prostitution and other endeavors involving outsiders.

  • The WP reminds readers that on Christmas Eve five years ago, armed hijackers from an Algerian independence group with which Ressam is linked hijacked an Air France jet.


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