Example sentences for: timorese

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

  • Bahasa Indonesia, the nation's official tongue, is the language of business in both Timors, but most Timorese continue to speak traditional dialects.

  • "If the issue here is Timorese identity, why not a chance for independence for all of Timor?"

  • A human rights group reported that hundreds of East Timorese have been shot or hacked to death, including: U.N. employees, members of the Red Cross, priests, and infants.

  • In Australia, which is to lead the peacekeeping force, the Sydney Morning Herald said, by contrast, that Australia intends "to respect the will of the East Timorese people and their clearly stated choice of freedom."

  • The Independent called the U.N. decision to pull its current mission out of East Timor "a grand Pontius Pilate-style washing of hands" and "a treacherous abandonment for the Timorese people."


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