Example sentences for: nanking

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

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

  • In the Treaty of Nanking (1842) China was compelled to open five of its ports to foreign economic and political penetration, and even to compensate the opium smugglers for their losses.

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

  • Shanghai fell and Nanking was threatened.

  • Nanjing (Nanking)


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