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Example sentences for: orient

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Acapulco: Colonial Gateway to the Orient and Playground to the Stars
The British call station wagons estate cars , but they refer to freight cars on a train as goods wagons (borrowed into French as plain wagon , also used in wagons-lits , the sleeping cars on old trains like the Orient Express).
Returning to the city, in the almost inevitable haze, you see the astonishingly un-Chinese skyline of Shanghai, a mythical European metropolis transplanted to the Orient.
(It is beyond me, for example, why people in eastern Asia should be offended by the word orient , which is no more than a reference to the place where the sun rises.)
I wondered how he had scraped together the fare for the Orient Express.