New World
Example Sentences
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Historians sometimes date the inception of the modern world to 1492, the year of Columbus’s departure for the New World.
Who knows, maybe Columbus decided to look for a New World one hot summer night when he got tired of staring at the same old barn.
From Literature
In early voyages to the New World, Euro Americans brought their ideas about identity, spirituality, ethnicity and skin color as they first encountered Native Americans.
From Los Angeles Times
By 1854, Cuba was one of Spain’s few remaining New World colonies, and Southern expansionists coveted it—and its lucrative sugar plantations—as a new U.S. slave state.
From Barron's
By 1854, Cuba was one of Spain’s few remaining New World colonies, and Southern expansionists coveted it—and its lucrative sugar plantations—as a new U.S. slave state.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
