Example sentences for: viet

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

  • My argument is not that the Chinese pronunciation for Viet is “Yueh” but that Mr. Henn errs when he translates the Chinese character as `extreme.

  • (The same is true for another of Vietnam's most famous images: Eddie Adams' photo of the gun-to-temple execution of a Viet Cong.)

  • And decades later, a Vietnam vet who had never been captured acted out the experience of having been tortured by the Viet Cong.

  • ' The correct translation is the “Yueh (or Viet)” of the “south” (as opposed to the “Yueh” who used to be just beyond present-day Shanghai).

  • ' Thus in the Chinese spoken language of that time we have two homophones, one meant `the Viet (people or kingdom),' the other simply `extreme, to exceed.


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