Example sentences for: qin

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

  • In the third century b.c. the founder of the Qin Dynasty annexed the remote Guangzhou area, thus furnishing China with its first major seaport.

  • Rarest of all is the Qin Tablet, carved in 209 b.c. to commemorate the ascent of Taishan by China’s first emperor, Qinshi Huangdi.

  • You can visit a site of the Qin Dynasty today at Xi’an, where the First Emperor’s terra cotta army was unearthed in 1974 (see page 185).

  • The life-sized (and slightly larger) infantrymen, archers, officers, and their horses symbolically guard the tomb of the first Qin emperor.

  • The word China is a relatively recent innovation, believed to be derived by foreigners from the name “Qin” (Ch’in), the first dynasty to unify China after the Warring States period.


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