Example sentences for: semi-autonomous

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

  • A front-page feature story at USAT notes that a spy-scandal-inspired reorganization of the Dept. of Energy, under which eight of the nation's nuclear weapons facilities will be moved into a new semi-autonomous organization, is apparently headed for Senate and perhaps White House approval.

  • Istanbul was forced to recognize this powerful thorn in its side as a semi-autonomous part of the empire, and granted hereditary status to the role of Pasha of Egypt.

  • Both the Pakistan-held Azad ("Free") Kashmir and the Indian-held Jammu and Kashmir became semi-autonomous regions within the controlling nations.

  • Russia wrested the country piecemeal from Iran throughout the 1800s and combined Georgia with the semi-autonomous regions of Abkhazia (in Georgia's northwest corner), Ajara (in its southwest corner), and South Ossetia (in its north-central region).


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