Example sentences for: timorese

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

  • 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.

  • The WP's Keith Richburg quotes diplomats and military analysts as saying that thousands of East Timorese members of Indonesian forces have deserted their units and joined the militias, and even cites some unconfirmed reports of soldiers firing on soldiers.

  • In London, the Times ran a front-page eyewitness piece by Marie Colvin from inside the U.N. compound in Dili about the desperation of the East Timorese who know they are about to be abandoned.

  • East Timorese who sided with pro-independence militias were either ignored or sold goods at sky-high prices."

  • Anti-independence militias in East Timor terrorized rural towns yesterday after voting showed that nearly 80 percent of East Timorese favor independence from Indonesia.


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