Example sentences for: palestine

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

  • Palestinians say evictions destroyed their way of life, forcing them to move from rural Palestine to crowded cities in search of work.

  • The general could not be taken seriously, wrote Abdelbari Atwan in an editorial, "for his greatest achievements have not been in the battlefield in Palestine or the Golan but in composing romantic poetry extolling beautiful women."

  • In its heyday from the 11th to the 13th centuries, Pisa created a powerful maritime empire down the Tyrrhenian coast and in Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt.

  • The new Jewish state of Israel founded on land so recently Islamic Palestine sent shock waves through the Arab world and Egypt found itself at the center of a bloody defeat in 1948 when it stood up against its new neighbor.

  • The 1923 border was acknowledged internationally after the League of Nations 1922 Mandate for Palestine authorized Britain to set up a Jewish homeland west of the Jordan River.


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