Example sentences for: suez

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

  • Indian agricultural products soon found new markets in Europe when the Suez Canal was opened in 1869.

  • Led by Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, they drove Farouk into exile and nationalized the Suez Canal.

  • President Nixon, after expressing the view that most Jewish Americans are insisting that the Administration go along with what he regards as Israeli intransigence on the Suez Canal and other Mideast peace issues while refusing to give him support on his Vietnam policy, remarks: "If anybody who's been in this chair ever had reason to be anti-Semitic [italics Chatterbox's] , I did."

  • As European power-brokering turned into World War I, Egypt became vital to the British, being close to the enemy Ottoman heartland, and allowing quick passage through the Suez Canal to her dominions in India, the Far East, Australia, and New Zealand.

  • And, Gaddis concludes, "[T]he Americans lost influence in the Middle East as a result of Suez, while the Russians gained it."


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