Kwangtung
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
It begins some 50 years before Maxine Kingston was born, some 30 years before the revolution, in the Hong family compound in a peasant village in Kwangtung Province.
From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021
Formosa, Hong Kong and China's Kwangtung province have much the same weather.
From Time Magazine Archive
One old comrade-in-arms, General Hsu Shih-yu, offered him sanctuary in a Kwangtung province resort that was reserved for the military elite.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hungry people from Tientsin sneak into the fields at night to steal corn from the stalks, and Kwangtung villagers are reportedly eating bark from the trees.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Canton, or Kwangtung Province, the prohibition was practically complete.
From Drugging a Nation The Story of China and the Opium Curse by Merwin, Samuel
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
