Example sentences for: yangzi

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

  • But the Yangzi’s rages can’t always be contained.

  • Across the 11⁄2-km (1-mile) Yangzi River Bridge in Wuchang is the Yellow Crane Tower (Huanghelou), based on another legend.

  • The Chongqing Museum, while poorly-lit and aging, does contain a collection of dinosaur eggs and two 3,000-year-old wooden boats that, suspended from the cliffs of the Yangzi, served as caskets for nobles in the days of the Ba Kingdom.

  • So wide and treacherous is the river that, before the construction of the great concrete-and-steel bridge of Wuhan (the first to cross the Yangzi) in 1957, all communications depended on the ferries, which were often hampered by fog or flood.

  • Perhaps this is why so much emphasis is placed on modern triumphs, such as the heroic bridge across the Yangzi River that has become Nanjing’s emblem.


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