Example sentences for: rhine

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

  • Caesar drew Gaul’s northeastern frontier at the Rhine, taking in present-day Belgium, and warned that the Ger­man­ic tribes across the river — the Franks (after whom France is named), Alamans, and Saxons — would always threaten the security of the frontier.

  • He built it for his wife but she died before it was finished, and it was abandoned as a vast empty fortress, like those that Boldt admired in similar splendid ruin back home in the Rhine Valley.

  • International businessmen and bankers flocked into town, but Bonn, understandably, as well as many provincial politicians opposing too great a concentration of power in Berlin, were reluctant to see all the affairs of government desert the banks of the Rhine.

  • When he became famous in Berlin, his tastes shifted slightly to Mosels (loved them), Rhine wines, and Cahors (lots of it).

  • Berlin has no local wine, but plenty of wine shops to satisfy all connoisseurs of the best Rhine, Mosel, and Baden Württemberg vintages.


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