Example sentences for: palestine

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

  • The Israeli Supreme Court had refused extradition on the controversial grounds that Sheinbein is Israeli (his father was born in 1944 in Palestine.

  • Jewish settlement in Palestine, then part of the decaying Ottoman Empire, only proceeded piecemeal.

  • In 1922 the League of Nations granted the British a mandate to administer Palestine.

  • Hanukkah commemorates the victory in 165 B.C. of a small band of Jews, led by Judas Maccabaeus, over the Greeks who ruled Palestine at the time.

  • The NYT depicts the rapidly disintegrating political relations between Israel and Palestine, reporting that yesterday, Israel "threatened to send commandos into Palestinian areas and had decreed a series of severe punitive measures against the Palestinian Authority.


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