Sentence examples for Guiana from high-quality English sources.

• Beebe served as a flier in World War I, returning to Guiana after the war.

• The Netherlands also announced a ban for passenger flights from the following countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, South Africa, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

• The new travel ban applies to people who have travelled from, or through, the South American countries of Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela in the last 10 days.

• Guyana formerly British Guiana, a nation in South America that gained its independence in 1966; not to be confused with French Guiana or the three African states of Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau; its inhabitants are Guyanese (noun and adjective), not Guyanan

• Bauxite was first discovered (1915) in Suriname and subsequently in British Guiana.

• French Guiana abolished slavery in 1848, and Dutch-ruled Suriname did the same in 1863.

• On the northeast coast of South America, the colony of French Guiana was founded about 1637.

• The shallow Guiana Current has an annual range in surface temperature of 79° to 82° F (26° to 28° C).

Use Guiana in a sentence.

• Brazil shares the rugged Guiana Highlands with Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.

• French Guiana, overseas territorial collectivity of France, situated on the northeastern coast of South America.

• It includes the independent nations of Guyana and Suriname and French Guiana, an overseas département of France.

• LISA Pathfinder was launched on December 3, 2014, by a Vega launch vehicle from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.

• In the far North, the Guiana Highlands are a rugged, lush landscape of hidden valleys, steep cliffs, and scenic waterfalls.

• Geologically, the rock underlying French Guiana forms part of the crystalline massif of the Guiana Highlands.

• They also colonized Dutch Guiana (now Suriname) and what later became British Guiana (now Guyana), in northern South America.

• British Guiana did not gain its independence until 1966 (as Guyana), and Dutch Guiana did not do so until 1975 (as Suriname).

Guiana sentence examples

• The Guiana Highlands are an imposing zone of steep-walled mesas (tepuis) where Brazil’s northern border meets with Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.

• His poem in praise of Sir Walter Raleigh, De Guiana, Carmen Epicum (“An Epic Poem about Guiana,” 1596), is typical of his preoccupation with the virtues of the warrior-hero, the character that dominates most of his plays.

• Jean-Marie Collot d’Herbois, (born June 19, 1749, Paris, France—died Jan. 8, 1796, Sinnamary, French Guiana), radical democrat and member of the Committee of Public Safety that ruled revolutionary France during the period of the Jacobin dictatorship (1793–94).

• Among the continent’s other major tongues are English (in Guyana), French (in French Guiana), Italian and German (among immigrants mainly in Argentina and Brazil), Japanese (among immigrants in Brazil and Peru), Dutch (in Suriname, which was once known as Dutch Guiana), and Hindi (among Indian immigrants to Suriname and Guyana).