Sample Sentences forShanghaigrouped by contextual meaning (editor-reviewed)
Shanghai as in: the city of Shanghai
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Shanghai is known for its futuristic skyline and bustling waterfront area, the Bund.
Shanghai = largest city of China
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She moved to Shanghai for a new job in international finance.
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Franz, a devout Christian, had spent most of his adult life in the army, stationed in Shanghai and Okinawa. (source)Shanghai = The largest city of China and largest port in the world
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Almost simultaneously, it attacked Thailand, Shanghai, Malaya, the Philippines, Guam, Midway, and Wake. (source)
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I daresay, you could find similar examples in Shanghai and Rotterdam.† (source)
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In the winter of 1922, Einstein visited Shanghai.† (source)
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We lived in a big building in one of Shanghai's nicer neighborhoods.† (source)
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The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum.† (source)
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"Why that's Shanghai Pierce's bunch," he said.† (source)
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Brian had taken such a powerful dislike to Ginger that I realized she must have done something more than shanghai his comic book.† (source)
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They were achingly beautiful, these ghostly cities — New York, Rio, Shanghai, Paris—under their stains of stars, images as though from an epoch before electricity, but with the buildings of today.† (source)
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She happens to be from Shanghai.† (source)
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If my history serves me correctly, you weren't even allowed into the clubs in Shanghai before the Revolution.† (source)
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Most of them showed passages from Shadowhunter history: the Angel rising from the lake with the Mortal Instruments, the Angel passing the Gray Book to Jonathan Shadowhunter, the First Accords, the Battle of Shanghai, the Council of Buenos Aires.† (source)
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