Example sentences for: tagus

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

  • By 1185 the frontier between Christianity and Islam had been drawn at the Tagus.

  • Churches crumbled, the waters of the Tagus heaved into a tidal wave, and fires spread throughout the city.

  • From its ramparts you can take in the whole of the city and the broad Rio Tejo (River Tagus), spanned by the longest suspension bridge in Europe.

  • The historic regions north of Lisbon — Estremadura, between the Tagus river and the Atlantic coast, and Ribatejo, extending into the agricultural central plains — possess some of Portugal’s most important monuments and most interesting and attractive towns.

  • The “land beyond the Tagus” (alem Tejo in Arabic) is a hot and dusty plain, sheathed in wheat, olive and cork trees, separating Lisbon from the Algarve.


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