Example sentences for: pacific

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

  • The South China Morning Post writes that at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the home government got very testy over visiting foreign officials' preoccupation with the arrest and trial of former Deputy Premier Anwar Ibrahim.

  • While the earliest, around 70,000 b.c., moved down the Pacific coast to South America, the settlement of Canada began some 15,000 years after, spreading across the continent from the Yukon and, much later, from British Columbia.

  • When Keats likens himself in this poem to "stout Cortez," who discovered the Pacific, is he implying that Cortez somehow resented the Pacific for existing before he discovered it?

  • Castro once roared fire and brimstone down on the Batista government here, but today you’ll find more pacific chess and domino players who have set up all-hours tables on the steps.

  • The second, related development was a significant transfer of planning and command responsibilities from the service chiefs and their staffs to the joint and unified commands outside of Washington, especially those for Strategic Forces and for four regions: Europe, the Pacific, the Center, and the South.


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