Example sentences for: niagara

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

  • On the outskirts of town, Fort George, the British garrison on the Niagara frontier during the 1812 War, destroyed by the Americans, was restored in the 1940s.

  • I sat soaking at about 100°F, while an exuberant gentleman on my left, who was wearing his washcloth draped over his head, gave me his four words of English: New York, Broadway, Niagara Falls, Grand Canyon . The real cultural joy, however, lay in just immersing myself in this aura, evoking Dante and 8½, and watching the occupants through the steamy haze as they lathered, rinsed, and squatted on little plastic stools to shave before low-hung misted mirrors against the walls—all this before I slap-slapped back to my room to enjoy dinner on the floor.

  • If I had a buck for each tired reference to cornfed Midwestern virtue in the Chicago books, I'd buy us a retro-chic jaunt to Niagara Falls.

  • Quemessourit became Missouri, Ookannasa Arkansas, Uneaukara Niagara, Machihaganing Michigan , and Potawanmeac Potomac . English speakers changed the pronunciations because the sound patterns in the Indian languages were so different from those of English that they could not hear, much less imitate, the exact words the Indians were using.

  • Don’t let that worry you — seeing Niagara and not getting wet would be silly.


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