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Example sentences for "colonial possessions"

  • Arndt, Paul, on handicapping of Germany because of meagreness of colonial possessions, 107.

  • Naumann, Friedrich, on handicapping of Germany through meagreness of colonial possessions, 107.

  • Is the present division of colonial possessions to be maintained or is there to be a new distribution, from which some nations will gain and others lose?

  • A pacific league of neutrals can evidently not tolerate the retention of colonial possessions by any dynastic State that may be drawn into the league or under its jurisdiction, as, e.

  • It was not long, however, before Italy was bound to be drawn into the general scramble for colonial possessions.

  • The road to prosperity, they believed, lay through the acquisition of colonial possessions.

  • Frenchmen had never ceased to lament the loss of colonial possessions in North America.

  • A mutual jealousy, as was to be expected, sprung up between France and England respecting their colonial possessions.

  • Portugal soon rivalled Spain in the extent and richness of colonial possessions.

  • The greatness of the British empire begins to date from this period, although this greatness is more to be traced to colonial possessions, manufactures, and commercial wealth, than to the victories of Marlborough.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colonial possessions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    close beside; cloth gilt; colonial administration; colonial affairs; colonial days; colonial empire; colonial expansion; colonial government; colonial office; colonial policy; colonial trade; country girl; eight dollars; half teaspoonful; high station; not need; often told; other places; reefed main; see them; suitable place; then with; white dove; who sat; without looking; wrought upon