Example sentences for: privileges

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

  • The papers don't really get into it, but it's hard to see how this use of an international body with special privileges is any different than say Saddam's use of hospitals to house bioweapons production, or the already widely accepted practice of the U.S. military relying on the information provided by Baghdad-based TV crews to monitor its air offensives.

  • The papers rough out how this decision could be not the end but merely the beginning of a legal morass: If the legislature does proceed to recognize gay marriage, then couples might come to Vermont to get married and then return to their home states citing the privileges of marriage there.

  • "Above all, the interests and privileges of the oligarchy will be protected."

  • Later, when Byzantium threatened its eastern trading privileges, Venice persuaded the armies of the Fourth Crusade to attack Constantinople in 1204; conquering Byzantium strengthened its position even more.

  • The two bronzes were presented in the mid-17th century by the Dutch government, in gratitude for the special exemption that gave them exclusive trading privileges with Japan during the period of national seclusion.


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