Example sentences for: lanzhou

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

  • Lanzhou received its name under the Sui Dynasty more than a thousand years ago.

  • In some museums you will find shops selling reproductions of their most famous archaeological exhibits (for example, the flying horse in Lanzhou).

  • Two legendary thoroughfares pass through Lanzhou: the broad, powerful Yellow River and the ancient trade route known as the Silk Road.

  • Lanzhou is the capital of Gansu (Kansu) Province, which extends from the farmland of the Yellow River basin through the narrow Gansu corridor, with its steep rocky mountains, to China’s far west of desert and oases.

  • West of Lanzhou are the magnificent Thousand Buddha Temple and Caves (Binglingsi Shiku), with ancient frescoes and hundreds of statues, and, at Xiahe, the Labrang Monastery (Labolengsi), one of the largest and most active lamaseries outside of Tibet.


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