Example sentences for: ontario

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

  • Local citizens boast that the Rideau Canal, which stretches 200 km (120 miles) from the Ottawa River to Lake Ontario, qualifies in winter as “the world’s longest skating rink.”

  • In a peaceful, green canalside setting disturbed only by perky Canada geese, notoriously loud honkers, you’ll find authentic pre-1867 buildings, from the simple timbered sawmill or old schoolhouse to the sophisticated brick-built Crysler Hall in the Palladian style favored by colonial land owners from Ontario to Alabama.

  • Compare the sturdy cedarwood canoes, built to negotiate the Pacific’s coastal waters, with the lighter birchbark craft used by Eastern Woodlands Indians for the rivers of Ontario and Québec.

  • Muddy York once could be recommended only by its commanding position on Lake Ontario, from which Fort York guarded the troublesome American border.

  • Beautifully located on Lake Ontario at the head of the St. Lawrence River, 180 km (108 miles) southwest of Ottawa, the town gets its charm more from its universities and silvery-grey historic houses than from its federal and provincial prisons.


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