Sentence examples for Guyana from high-quality English sources.

• GUYANA IS MINUSCULE.

• Mount Roraima is the highest point in Guyana.

• He also stopped in Suriname, like Guyana a budding oil exporter.

• Betty Pachl's father, Barclay Patoir came to the UK in 1943 from British Guyana in South America, now known as Guyana.

• Guyana has few engineers and no heavy industry.

• The capital and chief port of Guyana is Georgetown.

• But perhaps not for much longer: Guyana has struck black gold.

• A supporter of Maduro, China likely sees Guyana as a geographically strategic ally.

Use Guyana in a sentence.

• Brazil shares the rugged Guiana Highlands with Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.

• British Guiana was granted its own constitution in 1953 and achieved independence as Guyana in 1966.

• Chinese firms are helping to lay fibre-optic cables linking Cuba, Jamaica and Venezuela, as well as Guyana and Brazil.

• The Guyana Oil and Gas Association, a recently formed coalition of private firms and individuals, aims to promote transparency in the industry.

• Guyana has been a member of the Commonwealth (an international group made up of the United Kingdom and a number of its former dependencies) since 1970.

• In the late 20th century, boundary disputes remained unsettled between Venezuela and Guyana, Guyana and Suriname, and Suriname and French Guiana.

• Ahead of the visit, the Human Rights Association of Guyana expressed concern that the nation of 740,000 people could get caught in the middle of the dispute between Venezuela and the U.S.

• She spent the first eight years of her life in Guyana, raised by her father's mother alongside her cousins while their parents worked to set up a life in America, before joining her parents in Virginia.

Guyana sentence examples

• Guyana, a former British colony, recently begun developing offshore oil reserves and is strategically located next to strife-torn Venezuela, a major Chinese ally with which Guyana has a territorial dispute.

• The new travel ban applies to people who have travelled from, or through, the South American countries of Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela in the last 10 days.

• Among the continent’s other major tongues are English (in Guyana), French (in French Guiana), Italian and German (among immigrants mainly in Argentina and Brazil), Japanese (among immigrants in Brazil and Peru), Dutch (in Suriname, which was once known as Dutch Guiana), and Hindi (among Indian immigrants to Suriname and Guyana).

• Of the 412 dams already in operation, under construction or proposed, 256 are in Brazil, 77 in Peru, 55 in Ecuador, 14 in Bolivia, six in Venezuela, two in Guyana, and one each in Colombia, French Guyana and Surinam, said anthropologist Paul Little at the launch of the English version of his report Mega-Development Projects in Amazonia: A geopolitical and socioenvironmental primer.