Sentence examples for Washington from inspiring English sources
The word 'Washington' is correct and usable in written English
It is the name of the capital city of the United States, as well as the surname of the first president of the United States, George Washington. Example: I am planning to visit Washington, D.C. next month to see the famous monuments and museums.
The anti-same-sex marriage side actually had more support with those 30-plus year-olds and older in Maryland, Minnesota, and Washington.
Based on the true story of the wrongful conviction of black boxer Rubin Carter, the film has been criticised for bending the facts, which may have damaged its chances, but its star, Denzel Washington, appears in the best actor category.
Senator Ted Cruz is the biggest threat to business as usual in Washington in the last 25 years – and that is a great thing for America.
Rebel commanders are seeking assurances from Washington that if they sign a peace deal with the Colombian government, the United States will not be an obstacle to implementing agreements reached at the table.
There is no love lost between the Farc and the US: Washington put the guerrilla group on its list of terrorist organizations in 1997 and poured billions of dollars of military aid into a campaign to defeat them.
Far from bolstering stability, Saudi policy actively works against western attempts to end the standoff with non-Arab Iran – still the natural regional partner for London and Washington that it was before the 1979 revolution.
In April, Chafee told the Washington Post that Clinton's vote for the Iraq war should prevent her from becoming president.
And four of six intelligence "fusion centres", where the CIA and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence share information, have been closed, according to the Washington Post.
Even the November nuclear deal in Geneva with the so-called P5+1 can be seen as enhancing Iran's regional status to the detriment of Saudi Arabia, which has threatened to distance itself from the United States over the apparent Washington-Tehran thaw.
Visiting the US, the Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis was forced to deny such a scenario telling Christine Lagarde, the IMF managing director, that Greece would honour all its debt obligations, starting with Thursday's €450m repayment to the Washington-based body.
