TERRITORIAL in a Sentence

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1. He was shot down in enemy territory.
2. of Albania, Epirus, and adjacent territory.
3. Our troops have penetrated enemy territory.
4. How much territory does he travel over this year?
5. The army has made another big push into enemy territory.

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 Meanings and Examples of TERRITORIAL
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territorial
 a.  pertaining to territory or land; limited to a certain district
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  Even small children could recite with hate and fear the horrors the Yankees had inflicted upon the conquered territory.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
2  The news was uncertain, slow in coming, for the battle had been fought in the enemy's territory and the reports came first through Maryland, were relayed to Richmond and then to Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
3  Before him lay three hundred miles of territory virtually undefended save by a few state militia and the old men and young boys of the Home Guard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
4  Scarlett hastily carried the warfare into the enemy's territory.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
5  The Boys' Home was the best hotel on our branch of the Burlington, and all the commercial travellers in that territory tried to get into Black Hawk for Sunday.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: V
6  Their distant villages, their hunting-grounds and hundreds of their women and children, together with a material part of their physical force, were actually within the limits of the French territory.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28
7  Mrs. Bird, seeing the defenceless condition of the enemy's territory, had no more conscience than to push her advantage.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
8  Were any one, therefore, about to found a wholly new republic, he would have to consider whether he desired it to increase as Rome did in territory and dominion, or to continue within narrow limits.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI.
9  Whereupon the Romans grew less eager to punish their enemies by dividing their lands, and were content, when they deprived any city of its territory, to send colonists to occupy it.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXVII.
10  They could not, however, extend their conquests beyond Italy; while even within the limits of Italy, much territory remained unoccupied by them for reasons presently to be noticed.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV.
11  The enemy, on being routed, to save their country from pillage, very soon came to terms, when the Romans would take from them certain portions of their territory.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI.
12  These potentates had two principal anxieties: the one, that no foreigner should enter Italy under arms; the other, that none of themselves should seize more territory.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI — CONCERNING ECCLESIASTICAL PRINCIPALITIES
13  Our territory was invaded, I defended it; France was menaced, I offered my breast.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
14  Driving out the tyrant or driving out the English, in both cases, regaining possession of one's own territory.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE
15  of Albania, Epirus, and adjacent territory.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 77. Haidee.
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
16  The executive could not alienate any part of our territory.
17  He would like an assurance that other forces will not move into the territory that his forces vacate.
18  Our troops have penetrated enemy territory.
19  This particular fish chases off any other fish that enters its territory.
20  The army has made another big push into enemy territory.
21  He was shot down in enemy territory.
22  The best thing to do when entering unknown territory is smile.
23  In general China does not consider them as refugees but economic migrants and has repatriated those caught on its territory under a bilateral treaty with North Korea.
24  Kazakhstan, a vast territory, broke away from the former Soviet Union only ten years ago and is rarely in the international limelight.
25  How much territory does he travel over this year?
26  Mexico objected to the United States' attempts to annex the territory that later became the state of Texas.
27  Therefore, what they have to renounce is their presence in that piece of our national territory.
28  Her election would also take France into totally uncharted territory - with a woman as president for the first time in the country's history.
29  Although Israel ratified The Fourth Geneva Convention in 1951, it disputes the validity of the Convention in the occupied territories.
30  Eventually the descendants of England's Henry II were forced to cede their French territories to the King of France.