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7 sentences with 'travelling'

Example sentences and phrases with the word travelling and other words derived from it.


• « I was travelling and feeling a bit down, so I phoned my best friend since childhood. »
• « The Greeks went from being a great travelling and trading culture to one largely isolated from their neighbours. »
• « To reach this place, the centre of a region sparsely populated by nomads, the best way to get there is by air; anyone travelling overland runs the risk of being robbed. »
• « The first experimental railway was put into use in 1820, and the first passenger railway followed in 1830, travelling between the industrial cities of Manchester and Liverpool in the north of England. »
• « The stretch of the 'triangular trade' connecting Africa and the Americas was known as the Middle Passage because slave ships crossed directly across the mid-Atlantic, most of them travelling to Brazil or the Caribbean as noted above. »
• « The Vikings began travelling up the Russian rivers from the Baltic in the mid-8th century, even before the period of raiding began further west. Their initial motive was trade, not conquest, to trade and collect goods such as furs, amber and honey and transport them south to both Byzantium and the Abbasid Caliphate. »
• « Charlemagne spent almost his entire reign travelling around his empire with his armies, both conducting wars and issuing decrees. He insisted, eventually, that these decrees be written down, and the form of 'code' used to ensure their authenticity was simply that they be written in grammatically correct Latin, something that almost no one outside Charlemagne's court (and some members of the Church scattered around Europe) could achieve thanks to the abysmal state of education and literacy at the time. »

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