Example sentences for: protectorate

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

  • Ceuta, the Spanish protectorate on the North African coast, has special tax status and alcohol, for example, is vastly cheaper there than mainland Spain.

  • He went on, "Wye turned Palestine into an American protectorate.

  • Muslim rule was largely tolerant, and continued peacefully for nearly four centuries with a joint Christian-Muslim protectorate of Holy Places.

  • Once Clinton ruled out an "enclave," anonymous senior administration officials came up with a new phrase for the NATO-guarded territory to which the Kosovars would return: an "international protectorate."

  • Portugal itself was ruled as a virtual British protectorate.


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