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    Use "shanghai" in a sentence

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    shanghai


    shanghaied


    1. Stanley and Raymond decided to travel to Shanghai, China, so they could show the


    2. When the Japanese military bombed Shanghai and Nanking, Roosevelt was among those most forcefully condemning them


    3. As I was getting closer to my destination, my only dream was to cross the border into China and from there, get to Shanghai, since from Shanghai one can reach anywhere in the world by sea


    4. I had heard that the Russian nobility who managed to escape the Bolshevik revolution had arrived in Shanghai and were thereby saved from the communists


    5. “Until then, so long, and enjoy the pro tennis from Shanghai,” said Raoul in closing


    6. The Historical Museum of Xian and the Shanghai Museum of Shanghai, both built not so long ago, figure among the best the group has seen in content, ornament and accommodation of the exhibit


    7. Finally, they reached Shanghai, an animated and daring city of thirteen million inhabitants


    8. For his part, the guide in Shanghai voluntarily offered the opinion that in China there has always been freedom to practice other religions besides Buddhism


    9. Roger knew too, for instance, that the Marist Brothers had been expelled from China and their schools confiscated, included the ones they had in Shanghai


    10. They came back to Hong Kong and later they flew to Shanghai

    11. Scientists at Jiao Tong University in Shanghai have


    12. After 1997, other publications such Shanghai Buddhist Bimonthly and


    13. ation and diocesan of Catholic Diocese of Shanghai, says Falun Dafa is a


    14. I can however announce to you that Shanghai, like Nanking, is now firmly in the hands of the Time Patrol, and that all the Japanese counter-attacks to date have been defeated with very heavy losses to the Japanese


    15. Shanghai was far from being the only location to see ISF assault teams assassinate elected officials allied to John Li or to liberal members of the Federal Council


    16. However, he is an experienced, crafty man and he had lots of friends and contacts around Shanghai


    17. Horace Zembelo, who fled Shanghai to go find refuge in one of his residences in Africa, was killed a week later by a dispirited bodyguard who had lost his family in the Lagos strike


    18. They had made another stop after leaving Guangzhou, this time at Hangzhou, which would become Shanghai in the future and was already a major commercial port


    19. One of them is now in the hands of the Time Patrol and the other is presently idle in a secret hangar in Shanghai that is under surveillance by my people, pending a strike to take it out


    20. I have good news: the second time shuttle has been captured in its Shanghai hangar, along with the second physicist that started this whole affair

    21. “In some other related news,” as John looked down at his notes, “The Chinese Government has verified that the South organization has requested permits for its people to hold rallies in Shanghai, Beijing, and Hong Kong


    22. “Ah ha!” said the man, eagerly, “so you have business interests there, do you? Tell me, though, why you chose to use our services rather than a UK bank like the Hong Kong Shanghai, for example


    23. We got married a year later, in Shanghai, where his family lived


    24. Now Jacques found that the Pengxin Group from Shanghai Province, which had been the earlier investor in BEK Holdings, and had interests in real estate, infrastructural development, hotels, agribusiness, mining and equities, had been allocated 50,000 hectares of land to do agribusiness


    25. Under the Co-operation Agreement contemplated between the Shanghai Province and the Province of KwaZulu Natal, nineteen factories involved in the clothing, steel furniture manufacture and the electrical appliance manufacturing industries have been targeted for investment


    26. A Chinese spokesman elaborated ‘We are looking to bring in the luxury Bayan Tree Hotels and Resorts brand to be Shanghai Pengxin Group’s first hotel project in South Africa


    27. ‘She’s been sacked and he’s been demoted but transferred to Shanghai, instead of staying in Hong Kong


    28. Born in 1871, in Shanghai, he founded the Tom Lee chain of grocery stores which catered for the needs of rural communities in Queensland and northern New South Wales


    29. She remembered long hours agonizing over ciphers made difficult because they were based on Shanghai criminal jargon


    30. A guest of the Shell multinational, he had spent four days in Shanghai and had seen the populace’s total disregard for human rights and their almost pathological hatred for anything foreign

    31. Then they built their own city on our land, in Shanghai as you surely know, setting themselves up as masters, our overlords from over the sea


    32. Shanghai possesses the required skill


    33. And the British colonies in the East? The Robber Baron cities of Singapore, Shanghai, and Hong Kong; are now all bastions of super-capitalism and pure greed


    34. One hand poised on the grimy cracked subway tile, the other in his pants, the older man went by the name of Shanghai Larry, and as he stood there, his tired Eurasian features twisted into an alcoholic stupor, Michael reflected that the moniker could hardly be more appropriate


    35. It was at that moment that Shanghai Larry, whom Michael was convinced had been slumbering in the corner, came to life


    36. i was born in shanghai, china, but grew up in the united states


    37. I was born in Shanghai, China, but grew up in the United States


    38. “Shanghai!” Chén repeated, followed by something in his native tongue


    39. “Did they stop attacking Shanghai?”


    40. “We helped defend Shanghai and Karachi—until the Disrupter activated and disabled everyone’s links

    41. A visit to Shanghai motivated an inspirational trip to Tokyo


    42. I’m sorry, but I have to be in a teleconference with Shanghai, uh, five minutes ago


    43. The message to Shanghai was a reply to diplomatic dispatches, and therefore long; there were Chinese customs scams to address, and a strange cult in the east, and the problem of British botanists sneaking into forbidden regions in order to collect tea samples


    44. After the Shanghai message, the dispatches from Tokyo ticked through, only half intelligible because the minister there spoke in a mad English-Japanese pidgin full of gozaimases and shimases that Thaniel had half-heard at the show village the day before, but whose meaning he couldn’t tell


    45. As great as the growth was in 2008, the Chinese mainland stock market (Shanghai Index) did its own thing by falling 65 percent


    46. In late 2008, the Shanghai Index was trading at a more attractive valuation than the S&P 500


    47. The Shanghai Composite Index gained 14 percent through the first two months of 2009 versus a 19 percent loss for the S&P 500


    48. Granted, the Shanghai Index was down 65 percent in 2008, but the valuation has become reasonable and investors around the world are recognizing the opportunities in China


    49. Western powers still controlled some of China’s ports, including Hong Kong and Shanghai


    50. They attacked Shanghai and Nankin with terrifying force; many historians allege that Japanese troops in Nankin carried out a programme of mass rape









    1. Its called being shanghaied


    2. Had Sheila at any point caught on to them, or simply refused to be shanghaied, they would have immediately gone to Plan B—general laughter and the admission of a joke, along with the claim the group was a historical re-enactment troupe


    3. Ships had been sunk, shanghaied and crews impressed


    4. We were shanghaied here against our will


    5. He looks for the familiar face of any other beat cop like himself, who has been shanghaied into this hastily assembled detail, but the high collars of specially ordered urban-flak-vests, and the wide rims of civil defense helmets painted black, cloak the men’s identities in deep shadows


    6. Poor people were rounded up, and shanghaied, and pressed into these prisons


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    Synonyms for "shanghai"

    shanghai impress

    "shanghai" definitions

    the largest city of China; located in the east on the Pacific; one of the largest ports in the world


    take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship