Example sentences for: ottawa

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

  • Just a 20-minute drive across the Ottawa River into Québec, and actually the most popular of excursions from the national capital, this 36,000-hectare (89,000-acre) park of lakes and woodland covers an escarpment with dramatic lookouts over the plains of the Ottawa Valley.

  • But the provinces insisted that the Constitution remain with London rather than let Ottawa infringe on their prerogatives.

  • Completely bilingual, he was determined to forge Anglo- and French-Canadians into one nation, comparing them to the waters of the Ottawa river and Great Lakes meeting below the island of Montréal: “parallel, separate, distinguishable, and yet one stream, flowing within the same banks.”

  • As the national capital, Ottawa is the inevitable butt of jokes against its federal government bureaucracy, but patriots revere its parliament and museums preserving Canada’s cultural treasures.

  • On Lakeview Drive is the Diefenbaker Homestead, brought here from near Saskatoon to give a vivid insight into the simple country life led by Saskatchewan’s most famous son before he went off to Ottawa “to show them Yanks and Ruskies a thing or two.”


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