Example sentences for: latin

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

  • It is the system of writing that the victorious Japanese wanted to impose on the defeated Australians, New Zealanders, and Americans at the end of World War II, forcing them to abandon Latin letters and use Chinese logographs as phonetic equivalents of English words instead.

  • Under “Operation Bootstrap,” which attracted hundreds of new factories to Puerto Rico through tax and other incentives, the per-capita income soared to the highest in Latin America.

  • Despite great Latin music, athletic dancing, and two gorgeous stars (Vanessa Williams and Puerto Rican pop sensation Chayanne), this movie falls flat.

  • In tandem is often used to mean simultaneously or even side-by-side, but a tandem hitch is actually one or two horses ranged one in front of the other, in a single line, with tandem originally going back to a Latin pun.

  • Talking of Romans, one should bear in mind that almost all proverbs, however modern, however nationalistic, will have had a Latin original or prototype.


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