Example sentences for: spanish-

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

  • A rival Hapsburg claimant was supported by Austria and Britain, who saw a powerful Spanish-French alliance as a major threat.

  • Set in Cuba during the Spanish-American war, the novel is part Western (the main character, Ben Tyler, is an Arizona cowboy) and part noir (he's in on an arms-smuggling scam gone bad).

  • In May 1782, New Providence surrendered to a large Spanish-American invasion fleet from Cuba and for the next year a Spanish governor ruled the Bahamas.

  • 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.

  • In Spain, El País reported an improvement in Spanish-Chilean relations because of Chile's decision to raise the case of Gen.


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