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Example sentences for: mainland

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

The opening of a roadway linking the village to the mainland brought many changes for the inhabitants.
Unzen itself, once the favored “hill station” of Europeans escaping the steaming summers of the Asian mainland, is now a rather noisy, crowded spa resort.
Their leisurely manner tells you this is no mainland capital.
The Balearics are part of Spain, but bullfights are not the big deal they are on the mainland.
Venice, founded on its islets and lagoons in the sixth century by mainland refugees fleeing Lombard raiders, prospered from a privileged relationship with Byzantium and an uninhibited readiness to trade with Muslims and others farther east.