territory
Example Sentences
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He controlled vast swathes of territory, especially in his home state of Jalisco.
There are five regional hospitals across the vast Arctic island, with the Nuuk hospital serving patients from all over the territory.
From Barron's
The government in Mogadishu still considers Somaliland an integral part of Somalia even though the territory has run its own affairs since 1991, with its own passports, currency, army and police force.
From Barron's
After World War II, strategy games like Risk, in which players seek to capture territories across the world, reflected Cold War anxiety.
Our continental spread allowed people to “light out for the territory,” in Mark Twain’s phrase, to shed one identity and assume another — a cowboy, maybe, or a con-man.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
