Example sentences for: invading

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

  • And while he scored some memorable bull's-eyes on his fellow red men (for example, the Mohawks -- `man-eaters'--were given their blood-thirsty epithet by enemy tribes), he nevertheless reserved his choicest zingers for the invading whites.

  • Four distinct peoples once inhabited the land now known as Scotland: the Picts in the north, the Britons in the southwest, the invading Angles in the southeast, and the Scots in the west.

  • This case is especially striking because rather than killing pathogens through protein or cellular interactions, like most immune genes, APOBEC3G works by manipulating the genome sequence of the invading microbe.

  • After the Conquest English remained robustly alive during a period of bi- and trilingualism: the invading Normans spoke a French dialect which became for a time the language of the kings and the nobility, while contemporary English was spoken by the indigenous population; Latin was the language of record and of the law in general, and so it remained for about two centuries after the Conquest, with English as a close second.

  • The Spanish pick not their capital, however, but ancient Zamora, famous for its stand against the invading Moors in the 10th century.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast