Example sentences for: oriental

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

  • ' The word became popular in England in the early 19th century through the oriental romances and memories of James Morier, who enhanced his exotic tales with Turkish terms.

  • The stone implements and human fossils at this site, beneath the new Oriental Plaza office and shopping complex, are now on public view in a basement gallery.

  • In a letter to Charles Eliot Norton--like Hall and Francis James Child, a member of the class of '46--Whitney wrote resignedly, Anyhow, one takes a kind of wicked satisfaction in seeing that England has to come even to America for her scholars in that department of Oriental study which it is most her duty and interest to cultivate.

  • On his way back to India, Oxford awarded Hall an honorary doctorate in recognition of his contribution to oriental learning.

  • In Eckler's paper on Single-Letter Surnames we learn that all letters exist as a surname (and are overwhelmingly likely to be held by people of Oriental ancestry, p. 264), and only Q is missing.


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