Example sentences for: world--for

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

  • Determined to take New York by storm, she wrote to Georgia O'Keeffe--a female artist who had succeeded in the male-dominated New York art world--for advice.

  • Likewise with Myanmar, the name now used-- at least in the non-U.S.-English-speaking world--for what used to be called Burma . The official name of the country in Burmese has, since independence from Britain, been Pyidaungsu Socialist Thammada Myanma Naingngandaw , so Myanmar, it seems, is simply Burmese for Burma . This is the same phenomenon as Côte d'Ivoire . But the current Myanmarese (do I venture where angels fear to tread by coining the adjective?)


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