Example sentences for: mainland

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

  • In 1981, he abandoned his plans to sell advanced fighter planes to Taiwan, a move that would have offended the mainland Chinese.

  • The Balearics are part of Spain, but bullfights are not the big deal they are on the mainland.

  • Why else would this famously settled director pick both a mainland Chinese cinematographer (who reportedly came with a team of translators) and a different kind of lead actor--one who wouldn't mimic Allen's diction like Mia Farrow in Purple Rose and Kenneth Branagh in Celebrity ?

  • Back at the piazza, take the seggovia chairlift for a soaring view of the whole island and some of the mainland on your way up to the terraced gardens and chestnut trees of Monte Solaro, at 589 m (1,933 ft), Capri’s highest point.

  • [I]n my lifetime all our problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations of the world that have kept law-abiding liberty alive for the future," Thatcher said.


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