Example sentences for: singapore

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

  • Amid the continuing economic crisis in Asia, former Singapore leader Lee Kuan Yew (now senior minister in the Singapore government) said in an interview Sunday with Japan's main economic daily, Nihon Keizai Shimbun (or Nikkei ), that Japan and the United States must help the economic reconstruction of Indonesia, because the rest of Asia does not "have the strength to solve Indonesia's trade problems."

  • But in the 1870s, under the Colonial Office, the handsome profits gained from exporting Malayan tin through Singapore forced the British to take a more active role in Malay affairs.

  • The Singapore naval base was left empty.

  • Early successes in the Philippines, Borneo, Malaya, Singapore, and the Dutch East Indies enabled Japan to establish the so-called Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

  • Tunku Abdul Rahman, the first prime minister, reversed his party’s anti-Chinese policy by offering Singapore a place in the Federation.


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