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Example sentences for "that region"

  • These views are strengthened and corroborated by the governor of the Territory, by many of its most intelligent citizens, and by numerous officers of the Army who have served and are still serving in that region.

  • While I would propose nothing inconsistent with friendly negotiations to settle the extent of our claims in that region, yet a prudent forecast points out the necessity of such measures as may enable us to maintain our rights.

  • We spent nearly a week in that region, and were quite bewildered by the fabulous tales of recent discoveries, which at the time were confined to the several forks of the American and Yuba Rivers.

  • The springs furnished an abundance of cool, pure water, and the ridge was above the flight of mosquitoes, which abound in that region in great multitudes and of great voracity.

  • All this time our horses had nothing to eat but the sparse grass in that region, and we were forced to work our way down toward the Sacramento Valley, or to see our animals perish.

  • The two missionaries took this course, with the intention of proceeding to the Saut Sainte Marie, and there joining the Ottawas, and other tribes of that region, in their yearly descent to Montreal.

  • Marie, and with other tribes at Michillimackinac, and that they are masters of the trade of that region, where the forts are in their possession.

  • Especially too that the most brilliant light of faith may beam upon the populous races that dwell in that region of the world.

  • There are many other very large islands in that region, in appearance quite like the above-named island.

  • The relation closes with information regarding various islands, and the advantages of trading in that region.

  • In the projected expedition of the viceroy, Urdaneta's experience will be very valuable "because of your knowledge of the products of that region, and as you understand its navigation, and are a good cosmographer.

  • Consequently, when those people heard that our fleet had been made ready in Nueva EspaƱa, our men were held in bad repute among the natives of that region.

  • This word properly means Japan, and seems to have been given to the wood as a supposed product of that region.

  • It is mentioned also (Mukl) by Albiruni as a special product of Kachh, and is probably the incense of that region alluded to by Hiuen Tsang.

  • This is done to get out of the way of tarantulas which give terrible bites, as well as of fleas and such vermin, and at the same time to get as much air as possible in the great heat which prevails in that region.

  • This lake, Erie, now the busiest perhaps of all that great chain, had been avoided because of the hostility of the Iroquois, and so it was that it was last to rise out of the geographic darkness of that region.

  • What interests one who has lived in that region, is to hear the first word of praise of the prairies extending farther than the eye can see, interspersed with groves or with lofty trees.

  • U and Ou signify country in the language of that region.

  • The doctor became uneasy at this persistent setting of the wind in that direction, for he felt that he was being thrown back to the eastward, toward the centre of Africa, and the interminable deserts of that region.

  • Silaces, then governor of that region, was quickly defeated near Ichnai, a fortress so named, after contending with a few horsemen.

  • Caesar, when he had attended to pressing demands after the battle and had assigned to certain others Greece and the remainder of that region to win over and administer, himself pursued after Pompey.

  • In Shandaken Valley, in the Catskills, it was affirmed that a party of British officers buried money somewhere, when they were beset by the farmers and hunters of that region, and never got it out of the earth again.

  • THE BALL GAME BY THE SACO Water-Goblins from the streams about Katahdin had left their birthplace and journeyed away to the Agiochooks, making their presence known to the Indians of that region by thefts and loss of life.

  • The woman's home was secure against pillage, for it was no longer the one house of a white family in that region, and the Indians had retired farther and farther into the wilderness.

  • Each evening the stars which mark the north pole disappeared, so near is that region to the equator; but it was not possible to calculate precisely the polar degrees.

  • Baptista Elysius, who is a remarkable philosopher and doctor of medicine, was in possession of certain small stones they had gathered on the shores of that region, and he thinks they are topazes.

  • Though it is less important, yet the Veragua gives its name to the country, since the ruler of that region, which is watered by both rivers, has his residence on the bank of the Veragua.

  • He carried twelve horses and swine, both male and female, for propagating the species in that region.

  • Having taken possession of that region, they made this their starting-point, and proceeded to subdue also the rest of Macedonia.

  • However not even these escaped being enslaved by the Persians, for Mardonios did not depart from that region until he had made them subject.

  • Jimmy confessed to a fear of the Warrigals, or wild blacks of that region, to acute home-sickness, and to a general unwillingness to proceed further.

  • The account of this, the first expedition to cross the great sandy desert from south to north, confirms in every particular Warburton's experiences of the difficulties of exploration in that region.

  • It proved to be one of the principal creeks of that region, and was named Cresswell Creek; and a permanent lagoon on it was named the Anthony Lagoon.

  • The wet season and monsoonal rains caught the party amongst the sickly acacia scrubs of that region; and hemmed in by mud and bog they lost their stock, consumed their provisions, and made no progress.

  • It was not long, however, before he was discharged, largely because of partisan influence anxious to drive him out of that region.

  • Nevertheless he did not manage so to do but instead, in some comfortable section of that region, was seen drinking enough to last him until perhaps he should have another opportunity to return to the city.

  • Such were the words that Beatrice spake: These ended, to that region, where the world Is liveliest, full of fond desire she turn'd.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "that region" 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:
    country town; little soldier; person held; stay home; that city; that could; that end; that event; that house; that kingdom; that last; that love; that must; that none; that nothing; that one; that period; that place; that quarter; that question; that seemed; that which; that while; that word; that year; this field