Example sentences for: treasuries

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

  • The mutineers then invaded Delhi, Kanpur (Cawnpore), and Lucknow, looting treasuries, breaking open jails, and killing British men, women, and children.

  • USAT brings news that state treasuries are billions of dollars in the black, primarily because the economy's surge has boosted tax revenues and shrunk welfare rolls.

  • Some of the least stable, most hostile countries on the planet--such as China, Iran, and North Korea--are, reports the paper, "buying, building and arming submarines seemingly as fast as their treasuries will allow."

  • But the French soon proved just as great a burden on Italian treasuries, used to support their war effort and the Bonaparte family.

  • They sucker the poor with false advertising, do a lousy job at raising revenue (only 34 cents of every dollar spent on lotteries goes to state treasuries), and are magnets for corruption.


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