Cuba

in a sentence

A bunch of them bought a Cuban rumrunner and ran it back and forth between here and Cuba.  (source) John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, 1994

The way he made his money was simple-he started as a bootlegger, accumulating wealth throughout Prohibition by running rum up from Cuba.  (source) Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember, 1999

So when the teacher called on her to name the capitals of Romania and Cuba, Laila was caught off guard.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, 2007

EITHER KHRUSHCHEV WILL PULL THE MISSILES OUT OF CUBA OR KENNEDY WILL OFFER HIM SOMETHING TO HELP HIM SAVE FACE.  (source) John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, 1989

Cuba.†  (source) Moshin Hamid, Exit West, 2017

Her brother Carlos went to Cuba and then came back to Jamaica and opened a garment factory.†  (source) Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers, 2008

He spent a weekend with Harry in Cuba once ...oh, months ago.†  (source) Stephen King, The Shining, 1977

Us ought to go to Cuba, Miss Celie, you know?†  (source) Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982

Nor have they sent their ASW aircraft to stage out of Cuba.†  (source) Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October, 1984

The sub limped toward Cuba.†  (source) Howard E. Wasdin & Stephen Templin, I Am a Seal Team Six Warrior, 2012

The Old Man and the Sea can only take place in the Caribbean, of course, but more particularly in and around Cuba.†  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003

I fiddled with my radio until I found a report that an early tropical storm was shifting north from Cuba and might hit the keys with hurricane force winds by nightfall.†  (source) Jack Gantos, Hole in My Life, 2002

Its example ultimately prompted France to abolish slavery in 1848, inspired the American abolitionists and the Emancipation Proclamation, and pushed Cuba to enforce a ban on slave imports in 1867, in effect ending the transatlantic slave trade.†  (source) Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky, 2009