Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "geographical discovery"

  • Purposes of utility were amongst the first objects I had in view in my pursuit of geographical discovery; nor do I think that any country, however barren, can be explored without the attainment of some good end.

  • The three voyages of Captain James Cook form an era in the history of geographical discovery.

  • This was one of the few great epochs of geographical discovery.

  • One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity.

  • What, therefore, we mean by the history of geographical discovery is the gradual bringing to the knowledge of the nations of civilisation surrounding the Mediterranean Sea the vast tracts of land extending in all directions from it.

  • Though we speak of geographical discovery, it is really the discovery of new tribes of men that we are thinking of.

  • Such charts and maps were beginning to assume new importance in those days of geographical discovery.

  • Unfortunately, his diary and book called The Circuit of the Earth have perished, and our story of geographical discovery is the poorer.

  • But the death of Alexander the Great and the confusion that followed set back the advance of geographical discovery in this direction for some time.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "geographical discovery" 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:
    black and; but because; cannot deny; chemical process; clean white; distinguishing himself; during the past year; five cases; geographical discovery; geographical distribution; geographical knowledge; geographical miles; geographical position; geographical races; geographical science; little things; mere chance; nothing very; other ruins; purely local; right line; room where; see below; teach thee; used against; will form