Example sentences for: nicaragua

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

  • Hardest hit by Mitch were Honduras and Nicaragua.

  • Passiflora quadrangularis leaf decoction is used by the Garífuna of Eastern Nicaragua for fevers, rashes and sores [ 50 ] . The leaf and branch decoction is used in Columbia in external baths for snakebites [ 139 ] . An extract of branches and leaves had moderate neutralizing ability against the haemorrhagic effect of Bothrops atrox venom in Columbia [ 35 ] . The plant contains passiflorene, nor-epinephrine, 5-hydroxytryptamine and flavonoids [ 107 50 ] .

  • Indigenous Mayans and inhabitants of Eastern Nicaragua use Caspicum frutescens for fever, respiratory problems and infections [ 59 53 ] . Capsaicinoids are powerful skin irritants [ 54 ] . Capsaicin is a vanillylamide with hyperemic and anaesthetic properties [ 39 61 ] . It causes vasodilatation, enhanced permeability and has antiinflammatory and neurotransmitter activation properties [ 61 ] . Capsicum species have inhibitory effects on Bacillus species, Clostridium species and Streptococcus pyogenes [ 59 ] .

  • Buchanan can't reconcile his lifelong anti-communism with the anti-interventionist philosophy that supposedly unites his book, so when it comes to the Cold War he carves out an absurd exception: The extreme evil of communism, he says, warranted military action in places as far-flung as Vietnam or as minuscule as Nicaragua.

  • I guess she was checking out reports that the Soviets were using Nicaragua as a base to smuggle Bolshoi ballerinas to the guerrillas in El Salvador.


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