Example sentences for: martinique

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

  • When, during the French Revolution, the Convention ambitiously declared slavery abolished, Martinique’s wealthy plantation owners frantically objected.

  • "What Ulysses did for Ireland it also did for literature in English, and Texaco , also a masterpiece, does the same for another island, Martinique, and for (here one swallows) literature in French."

  • Martinique and Guadeloupe, formal départements since 1946, have recently become régions in an administrative reshuffle.

  • Guadeloupe and Martinique, much the largest of the islands and about 160 km (100 miles) apart, are becoming internationally known resorts.

  • The victims — over 30,000 — included most of Martinique’s social and managerial elite.


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