7 sentences with 'abroad'
Example sentences and phrases with the word abroad and other words derived from it.
• « Most of the Scandinavian gymnasts of that time performed exhibitions abroad, with names such as the Sofiaflickorna, the Idlaflickorna, the Malmöflickorna, all of them with elements. The one they worked best was the ball. »
• « He used public money to buy Athenian slaves who had been enslaved abroad and bring them back to Athens. »
• « Taken together, this concept was called mercantilism: an economic system consisting of a royal government controlling the colonies abroad and overseeing property at home. The ultimate example of this system was the largest owner of the bullion-producing colonies: Spain. »
• « Rousseau went on to write novels and essays that attracted enormous attention both in France and abroad, asserting, among other things, that children should learn from nature by experiencing the world, allowing their natural goodness and character to develop. »
• « Peter the Great forced the Russian nobility to dress and act more like Western Europeans, sent Russian noble children abroad for education, built a huge navy and army to fight the Swedes and Turks, and (at the cost of semi-slave labour) created the new port city of St Petersburg as the new imperial capital. »
• « Some women, both in France and abroad, forcibly drove home the implication of the Revolution's promise of 'equality', with the playwright Olympe de Gouges issuing a Declaration of Women's Rights in 1791 in parallel to the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of the Assembly of 1789. »