Example sentences for: spanish-

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

  • The rise of Spanish-English conflict marks the exit from Eden: "From the moment the European rivals began fighting among themselves for territory, ...

  • But with the Spanish-American War, he says, the policy was junked, and since then we've been rushing headlong into ruin.

  • In the absence of other federal law enforcement agencies--there was no FBI until 1908--the service over time took on new jobs: combating the terrorist acts of the Ku Klux Klan, which had sprung up in the Reconstruction South; conducting espionage during the Spanish-American War and World War I; investigating the Harding administration's Teapot Dome scandal; and helping to apprehend the gangster Al Capone for tax fraud.

  • When the devil gets the upper hand in me, I like to tease my Spanish and Spanish-American friends about some of the words their language lacks.

  • Also worth a visit is the beautiful Santa Barbara County Courthouse — a magnificent Spanish-Moorish–style edifice dating from 1927.


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