8 sentences with 'tropical'
Example sentences and phrases with the word tropical and other words derived from it.
• « Manrique turned what used to be a garbage dump into a tropical oasis: one of the collapsed caves contains a swimming pool, and in others there is a concert hall, a discotheque and two bars. »
• « Black as the tropical night, the cat frolicked in the dancing shadows cast by the flame of an oil lamp. »
• « Growers in the Yucatan, in the tropical jungle zone of Mexico, calculate that a large, well-populated cave, with some four million bats hunting in flocks, eliminates twenty-five tons of insects every night. »
• « Unlike other luxury goods that could be produced in Europe itself, spices could only be grown in the tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, which meant that transporting them to European markets required journeys of many thousands of kilometres, driving up costs enormously. »
• « Nineteenth-century scientific advances also lent themselves directly to European power, most obviously in the sense that modern medicine enabled European soldiers and administrators to survive in regions such as sub-Saharan Africa that had been death traps for them in the past due to the prevalence of tropical diseases. »
• « Technology made the new imperialism possible. It vastly increased the speed of communications, armed European soldiers with advanced weapons that overwhelmed resistance, and protected Europeans from tropical diseases. »
• « Once Pasteur's discoveries in bacteriology were made, it became feasible for large numbers of European soldiers and officials to settle permanently in the tropical regions of Africa and Asia. »
• « I wondered why the cold water shells, like those on Dutch beaches, were chalky and graceless, while the tropical creatures were so polished and adorned. »