mainland
Example Sentences
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Last week, border police stopped a car crossing from Hong Kong into the neighboring mainland Chinese city of Shenzhen.
Coyotes could be leaving the mainland because the Bay Area is becoming too crowded, Brett Furnas, a wildlife ecologist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, told the Los Angeles Times.
From BBC
A refugee from the Sino-Japanese War who fled mainland China to Hong Kong, he started a business in 1950 manufacturing plastic flowers and named it Cheung Kong after China's Yangtze River.
From Barron's
Officials said the location was likely the storm's entry point to mainland Portugal.
From BBC
On the mainland however, public discussions and remembrance of the crackdown are not allowed.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
