Sempach
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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He joked that he covered his eyes at a painting in the Swiss Guard’s headquarters of the 14th-century battles of Morgarten and Sempach, which helped bounce his family out of Switzerland.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
And in another Swiss folly, a German truck driver trying to deliver cargo to a factory in the town of Sempach found himself up a tree — literally.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2014
The Sempach burghers themselves had ordered the windows removed in 1814 to let more light into their hall.
From Time Magazine Archive
The lake-settlements of Switzerland known to belong to this epoch are: Geneva, ten settlements; Neuchatel, twenty-five settlements; Bienne, ten settlements; Morat, three settlements; and Sempach, two settlements.
From A Manual of the Antiquity of Man by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean
The door opened, and Max von Sempach came in.
From The King's Mirror by Anthony Hope
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