Example sentences for: portuguese

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

  • Unlike Portuguese and Dutch trading posts in the region, Penang was declared a duty-free zone, attracting many settlers and traders.

  • It began as a Congregationalist Church but since 1862 has served the Roman Catholic Irish, Italian, and Portuguese communities.

  • Many Kyushu daimyo adopted Christianity as a means of winning favor with the Portuguese traders, without necessarily abandoning their Buddhist beliefs or Shinto practices.

  • The 130 years of Portuguese control proved precarious.

  • João Gonçalves Zarco, sailing in the service of Prince Henry, made the first of many famous Portuguese discoveries, which would culminate a century later in Magellan’s historic circumnavigation of the globe.


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