Example sentences for: ottawa

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

  • Ottawa compromised with a shorter pipeline, one just for oil.

  • 120 nations (that's the NYT number; the LAT and USAT say 125) gathered yesterday in Ottawa to sign a comprehensive land mine ban.

  • 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.”

  • This great metropolis, Québec’s largest city with 3.1 million inhabitants, is built on an island at the confluence of the Ottawa and St. Lawrence rivers.

  • Here, 86 km (53 miles) southeast of Ottawa, the two strands of the region’s history come together in the meticulous recreation of a 19th-century pioneering village, perhaps the best of the country’s many historical showpieces.


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