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Example sentences for "conterminous"

Lexicographically close words:
contento; contents; contentus; contenu; conter; contest; contestant; contestants; contestation; contested
  1. The Wahhabis, who are connected with the Shia, are likewise a political and religious sect which was founded in the eighteenth century in Nejed, a region of Central Arabia conterminous with the north of Syria.

  2. It was natural that part of the Turkish population driven away from Macedonia should settle down in the Turkish territory conterminous to Eastern Thrace, as it actually did.

  3. Besides these political divisions there are certain parts of Germany which, not conterminous with political boundaries, retain appellations derived either from former tribal settlements or from divisions of the old Holy Roman Empire.

  4. Formerly the genus Geranium was almost conterminous with the order Geraniaceae.

  5. It was conterminous on the landward side with Illyria, Macedonia and Thessaly, and thus corresponds to the southern portion of Albania (q.

  6. The conterminous states were Corinth, Argos, Troezen and Hermione.

  7. They lie in the two well-marked synclinal basins of London and Hampshire which are conterminous in the western area (Hampshire, Berkshire), but are separated towards the east by the denuded anticline of the Weald.

  8. He pleads for a return of the love which he says he bears her, but she bids him postpone his protestations till he can make them in the play.

  9. Tlagga Silla, or little dogs, nearer to the mouth of the Yukon, and probably conterminous with the Eskimo Kwichpak-meut.

  10. Being entirely unacquainted with the great Kutchin family in the Yukon Valley, he makes the Carriers of New Caledonia conterminous with the Eskimos.

  11. Athens against Thebes, and of Thebes against Phokis, is a war of neighbours against neighbours, or a conterminous war.

  12. Excepting the northern part of this tract which is conterminous with the plain of Mesopotamia (which at its highest point reaches an elevation of about 700 ft.

  13. Volta (which separates it from the German colony of Togoland); the southern frontier is conterminous with the northern frontier of the (British) Gold Coast colony.

  14. Its eastern part is nearly conterminous with south Mongolia, its western forms Chinese or eastern Turkestan.

  15. His father, Conall Derg, was king of Oriel--a wide territory extending from Lough Erne to the sea at Dundalk, and nearly conterminous with the modern diocese of Clogher.

  16. The ancient Banga formed one of the five outlying kingdoms of Aryan India, and was practically conterminous with the delta of Bengal.

  17. Second, the Shammar Bedouins, whose pasturages lie conterminous to those of the Aneza on the east.

  18. A line drawn obliquely across Persia from Biluchistan towards the north-west brings us to another frontier population; a population conterminous with the Semitic Arabs of Mesopotamia, and the unplaced Armenians.

  19. Cape Verde, conterminous with and surrounded by the Woloffs.

  20. This and the Bengali are conterminous with the monosyllabic languages of the eastern Sub-Himalayan range, and the northern portion of the Transgangetic Peninsula.

  21. Originally conterminous with the Movimas, Iténès, the Maropas, and Pacaguaras.

  22. Turk tribes were conterminous with the same non-Turk tribes as at present.

  23. The Tubar occupied the head-waters of the River Sinaloa; as such they were conterminous with the western Tarahumaras.

  24. Head-waters of the river Clamet, due south of the Molele, and conterminous with the Umkwa on the west, the Wihinast Shoshonis on the east, and the Palaiks and Shastis on the south.

  25. Conterminous with the Khamti on the south, and the Abors on the west.

  26. The Shushwap, or Atnahs, are the northernmost of the Tsihaili, and are conterminous with the Taculli.

  27. Five days from the coast; conterminous with the Wakamba.

  28. The northern bank of the Senegal, about Lake Kayor, conterminous with the Moors of the Sahara and Woloff.

  29. Conterminous with the Khamtis and Mishimis on the north.

  30. Speaking generally, the Bor Abors, Abors, and Miri are conterminous with the Khamti, and Mishimi on the north-east.

  31. The population, which I suppose to have been conterminous with the Patagonians (i.

  32. A title by contiguity, as between conterminous states, would thus appear to be a reciprocal title: it cannot be advanced by one party, excepting as a principle which sanctions a corresponding right in the other.

  33. It appears, therefore, that some of the spirits seem to have been conterminous with the life of Paia-Njambi in the eternities.

  34. Conterminous with Him in origin there may have been some other spirits.

  35. Just as the jurisdiction of the heptarchic bishops extended over the kingdoms, so in the parish the jurisdiction of the priest was conterminous with the estate of the lord or thane who invited the priest to minister to himself and his people.

  36. There the lord of an estate built a church and provided a maintenance for a priest to minister to his family and dependents; and the priest's spiritual authority was conterminous with the area of his patron's civil jurisdiction; i.

  37. Unless strongly backed by Russia, Servia knew well enough that Austria, posted in the conterminous province of Bosnia, would be a most awkward neighbour, and render any hope of future independence on her part purely illusory.

  38. Besides spreading out over this immense area, there are two branches still farther north, isolated from the mother tongue, yet conterminous to each other, the Huastec and the Totonac of Tamaulipas and Vera Cruz.

  39. He placed Yoritomo in the keeping of two trusted wardens whose manors were practically conterminous in the valley of the Kano stream on the immediate west of Hakone Pass.

  40. Shiragi (Sinra), whose frontier was conterminous with that of the Japanese settlement on the north, had always been restive in the proximity of a foreign aggressor.

  41. Mantineia and Tegea, being conterminous as well as the two most considerable states in Arcadia, were in perpetual rivalry, which had shown itself only a year and a half before in a bloody but indecisive battle.

  42. This was the natural point of view for a Syracusan politician; but by no means equally natural, nor equally conclusive, for an inhabitant of one of the secondary Sicilian cities, especially of the conterminous Kamarina.

  43. On the west the ice-sheets reached out to sea; on the east they were conterminous with those from Scandinavia.

  44. From Norfolk and Suffolk we pass to the adjoining county of Cambridge, which is conterminous with the diocese of Ely.

  45. He also provided rules respecting the use of wells between neighbors, and respecting the planting in conterminous olive grounds.

  46. Already no doubt they were both gratified that the spheres of their military occupation were conterminous and that no Turkish territory remained for Bulgaria to occupy west of the Vardar River.

  47. And since Macedonia is not conterminous with Roumania, she was not seeking to annex any portion of it.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "conterminous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accompanying; adjacent; adjoining; agreeing; bordering; coeternal; coeval; coexistent; collateral; concomitant; concurrent; connecting; contemporaneous; contemporary; conterminous; contiguous; coterminous; endways; immediate; joined; juxtaposed; neighbor; neighboring; next; simultaneous; touching