Example sentences for: protectorate

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

  • From the harbor, hydrofoils and car ferries cross the strait to Ceuta, a Spanish protectorate, and to Tangier in Morocco.

  • Instead, it seems about to inherit a long-term 100 per cent Albanian protectorate, ethnically cleansed by the victims of ethnic cleansing, who can be as cruel as their former tormentors when given a chance."

  • President Boris Yeltsin said Russia would "not permit" NATO to send in ground troops to make Yugoslavia its "protectorate."

  • The Guardian continued to argue for a land war "to capture Kosovo and turn it into an international protectorate."

  • The cover story debates whether NATO's goal should be to carve up Kosovo or administer it as a protectorate.


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