Example sentences for: spices

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

  • First, they drew up agreements with the Portuguese, who had themselves concluded trade treaties in the East making them the sole source of new goods such as spices and silks.

  • Spices: The long trade routes north and east that came together in Egypt for centuries made it a marketplace for many spices.

  • They turned their noses up at trade with the Romans, but China offered many bounties, such as silk, musk, and amber, in exchange for India’s spices, jewels, and perfumes — as well as parakeets for the ladies’ boudoirs and monkeys for their cooking pots.

  • From here, the long, narrow arcade called Nakamise-dori is lined with shops selling toasted rice crackers, spices in gourd-shaped wooden bottles, dolls, toys, fans, children’s kimono, and ornaments and souvenirs of all sorts.

  • Rounding what is now known as the Cape of Good Hope, da Gama found what Columbus had been searching for in 1492 (although in the wrong direction): the sea-route to the lucrative spices of the East.


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