Example sentences for: subcontinent

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

  • A WP editorial argues that Bush exhibited a worrisome attitude towards democracy when he stated that the Pakistani coup was "good news for the subcontinent."

  • In the quiz, Bush had failed to name three of those leaders and had asserted that the leader of Pakistan, a general who had overthrown the country's elected government, recently "took over office … is going to bring stability to the country, and I think that's good news for the subcontinent."

  • India comprises a diamond-shaped subcontinent that stretches over 3,000 km (1,800 miles) from the Kashmir mountains in the north right down to Kanyakumari, or Cape Comorin, on the Indian Ocean.

  • China policy is mired in incoherence, and the Indian subcontinent is locked in a nuclear arms race.

  • Now the Taliban are trying to take over Pakistan, an incredibly strategic juncture between East and West, continent and subcontinent.


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