Cherbourg

How to use Cherbourg in a sentence

• The name is territorial; and the better opinion is inclined to connect it with Brix, between Cherbourg and Valognes.

  King Robert the Bruce | A. F. Murison

• Topmasts were housed, and they passed into the breakwater ready for the two-miles beat through Cherbourg Roads.

  Yachting Vol. 2 | Various.

• Lady Belfast describes very amusingly the visit of the English yachts to Cherbourg and the welcome they had there.

  Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino v.1/3, 1831-1835 | Dorothy Duchesse de Dino

• The ship went about, and stood to the southward, the principal intending to go into Cherbourg if the weather would permit.

  Down the Rhine | Oliver Optic

• I thought I was east of Cherbourg, when I was far to the west and stopped my engine in that belief, and then set it going again.

  Tono Bungay | H. G. Wells