Example sentences for: madeira

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

  • Along with fortified wine, embroidery and lacemaking are Madeira’s superlative exports, and in Funchal you have ample opportunity to visit factories or workshops where the final touches are put to these painstakingly produced items.

  • Santana is home to a quaint but primitive style of housing — A-shaped structures known as palheiros (not to be confused with the A-shaped cow huts that dot the hillsides all over Madeira).

  • The botanical garden is not in the same league as the beautiful gardens you will see in Funchal, but it nevertheless claims to have examples of every species of flower, plant, and tree to be found on Madeira, and sprawls unpredictably along twisting paths among shady trees.

  • Madeira’s strategic position for Atlantic shipping did not escape the notice of the German High Command, and in December of that year a German submarine bombarded the Funchal harbor and sank three French ships.

  • Funchal, the island’s capital, major harbor, and only city of any note, merely hints at Madeira’s riches.


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