Example sentences for: niagara

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

  • but economically vital, the first hydroelectric installation began functioning on Niagara Falls in 1895.

  • Congress called for nothing less than the conquest of Canada, but Major-General Isaac Brock’s tiny Canadian force, allied with Chief Tecumseh’s Shawnee Indians, routed a half-hearted American invasion along the Niagara frontier.

  • The Niagara River divides in fact into two major cascades around Goat Island: to the east, American Falls (61 m/184 ft high with a crestline of 350 m/1,076 ft) and to the west, the more dramatic Canadian Horseshoe Falls (58 m/177 ft high with a curving crestline of 670 m/2,214 ft), and a smaller cascade off to the side, known as Bridal Veil.

  • He was fascinated by the Japanese-print flatness bequeathed by the Impressionists; in Maid of the Mist, Niagara Falls (1915), he managed to cheat scale so much that the boat looks like a bathtub toy against the swirl of rocks and spume.

  • I'll do you one better: Let's pose as guidebook writers, and get someone else to pick up the tab for our visit to Niagara.


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