Example sentences for: scottish

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

  • Kirkcudbright (`Church of Cuthbert'), the name of a small former Scottish county and its main town, is pronounced “kir-KOO-bree”—which Brown reports is said by the natives with a “dove-like murmur.”

  • On Tuesday, the Pan-Arab al-Quds al-Arabi described this as a "deliberate" snub linked to Egypt's refusal to join other member states of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in defying the air embargo that was in force against Libya for seven years until last month, when the country handed over two Lockerbie bombing suspects for trial by a Scottish court in the Netherlands.

  • Although many Scottish nobles were dedicated to the cause of independence, others either bore grudges against the ruling king or held lands in England that they feared to lose.

  • However, Webster's New World is quite responsive to Scottish sensitivity.

  • The conservative tabloid Daily Mail said that "the fact that the New York Times broke the story, rather than the British government, is a public relations disaster for Labour" and "an uncovenanted gift for the Scottish Nationalists," who seek independence for Scotland.


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