Example sentences for: zuider

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

  • Out on the IJsselmeer (the inland waterway what was the Zuider Zee) on any sunny weekend you’ll see hundreds of white sails breaking the horizon.

  • Further north is Monnickendam, once a large fishing port on the Zuider Zee which lost its raison d’être when the Afsluitdijk was completed in 1932.

  • Something must have been appealing about the marshy outlet of the River Amstel where it meets the River IJ (pronounced “Ay”) — a tidal inlet of the Zuider Zee — even although the area flooded on a regular basis with water forced in by the prevailing winter winds.

  • The Zuider Zee was finally tamed with the building of a 19-mile dike, the Afsluitdijk, in the north.

  • Amsterdam is situated in the north of The Netherlands and was set where the outlet of the Amstel River meets the salty tidal waters of the Zuider Zee.


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