Example sentences for: welsh

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

  • Dr. Richards gives us a mini-treatise on the application of bye-laws in Scotland in the 14th century, which is not particularly useful if you are lost in a fog and, on knocking at the door of an isolated Welsh cottage, you are faced by an aged gentleman who has no English.

  • After extolling Anglo-Japanese friendship and recalling his own childhood membership in the Boy Scout movement ("I still cherish the memory of a simple meal shared with scouts on a cold Welsh shore"), Hashimoto reiterated his recent public apology for Japan's brutal treatment of British prisoners during World War II and promised new reconciliation initiatives.

  • I wonder, though, why the Baughan (and Vaughan ) entries do not mention that bach was an epithet that distinguished a son and father, a kind of Welsh equivalent of junior . I also have my doubts about how ordinary users of this dictionary will cope with its metalanguage.

  • Some are wonderfully playful, such as pinky-panky-poo, or simply wonderful, such as scurch and dreuwhy (the latter alleged to have been drawn from the ancient Welsh).

  • It was a Welsh Celtic tribe that named the northern stretches of this territory “Cumbria” (the area was officially known as Cumberland until 1974).


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