Example sentences for: indies

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

  • Professor Trucios-Haynes graduated from Stanford Law School in 1986, where she served as Associate Editor of the Stanford Law Review and also volunteered at The Kingston Legal Aid Clinic in Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies, during a semester abroad.

  • NASA's scientists have a better understanding of what they are doing in exploring Mars than … Columbus had when he sailed westwards to find the East Indies and stumbled on to the Americas.

  • Christopher Columbus, the seafaring captain from Genoa (whom at least three Mallorcan towns claim as their own) believed he could reach the East Indies by sailing westwards.

  • All the plants were identified at the University of the West Indies Herbarium, but no voucher specimens were deposited.

  • It passed successively into the hands of the French West Indies Trading Company (to store its spices), the British, and, during their brief occupation of the city in 1775, the American generals Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold.


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