Example sentences for: oriental

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

  • For more ceramics, stop in at the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, located in the garden at one end of Nakanoshima, the “central island” in the middle of the large river running through Osaka’s center.

  • Of course, the notion that Asian-Americans are torn between an outward allegiance to this country and a hard-wired fealty to some Oriental motherland has a long and undistinguished pedigree.

  • 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.

  • ' 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.

  • Look for the elaborate oriental lines of the Mosque of Abu El Abbas on your right.


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