Example sentences for: primo

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

  • The colonial war in Morocco provided an almost welcome distraction, but a disastrous defeat there in 1921 led to a coup in which the general Primo de Rivera became dictator.

  • As the Italian chemist Primo Levi dramatically was reminded when a flask blew up in which he was trying to refine benzene under wartime-scarcity conditions, one of several remarkable escapes from death recounted in his collection of autobiographical essays published as The Periodic Table (Schocken, New York: 1984).

  • Could there be serious security leaks at some of the primo op-ed desks?

  • Unamuno, a writer and vice-chancellor of the famous University of Salamanca, the oldest in Spain, made himself unpopular in 1924 with the dictator of Spain, General Primo de Ribera.

  • Six years later the opposition of radical forces resulted in Primo de Rivera’s fall.


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