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Example sentences for: portuguese

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

You’ll understand why, in the days before the great Portuguese explorers set out from here seeking to discover the great beyond, it was known as the End of the World.
The concept continues through the Spanish word for `weight': peso (Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Philippines, Uruguay); its diminutive: peseta (Spain), and the same word in Portuguese: peso (Guinea-Bissau).
The figures just behind Prince Henry represent noted explorers, map-makers, and astronomers whom he mobilized in order to launch Portuguese ships into the history books.
Today’s Jamaican population is a mixture of African and English, with Spanish, Indian, and a smattering of Portuguese Jews, Germans, Welsh, and Scots.
The Suharto case has better legal standing, the Herald points out, because "the crimes he is accused of were committed on territory still recognised by the UN and international law as being Portuguese."