Example sentences for: nanking

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

  • When the Japanese troops finally arrived here in 1937, the “Rape of Nanking” was added to the catalogue of war’s atrocities.

  • The Opium Wars ended in 1842 with the Treaty of Nanking (later denounced as “unequal”).

  • Shanghai fell and Nanking was threatened.

  • During the past four months, he's written about subjects ranging from Puerto Rican statehood to the Unabomber to the rape of Nanking, and only sparingly about Flytrap.

  • By 1938, they held Nanking, Hankow, and Canton.


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