Sentence examples for my mainland from inspiring English sources

If he is what my mainland European friend calls a "conservative" then he will find many like-minded colleagues in the Midlands.

My mainland friends assume it is a reference to July 1, the date Hong Kong returned to China in 1997 but in Hong Kong it also refers to the date we held a demonstration for democracy July 1 , 2003

This story is very close to me — the landscape is a fictionalized version of my home, "mainland" South Florida and the shrinking Everglades (about an hour from Miami), a terrain that's currently poisoned by phosphorus pollution, dammed, drained, paved-over by developers, covered in sugarcane, dyked, maybe twenty per cent of its original size, and disappearing at sickening speeds.

When I was 11, I had never been to the mainland, and my grandmother, my mother, and my two-year-old sister and I decided to take a big summer trip across the continental U.S. I still remember traveling up to Yellowstone National Park, coming over a hill, and suddenly seeing just hundreds of deer and bison for the very first time.

When we reached the mainland, my husband and I drove into Saugerties, which has been a settlement since the 1600's, when Barent Cornelius Volge operated a sawmill there.

(When I arrived on the Mainland, my insensitivity to face was a problem.

The landfill that still connected me to the mainland of my life was my job.

On my ride back to the mainland I kept my eyes focused on the islands as they got smaller on the horizon.

No mainland food, my eldest agreed.

This was my first time in mainland China, and I was struck by paradoxical realities.

KF My first trip to mainland Europe was unbelievably late in the day.