How to Use subcontinent in a Sentence

subcontinent

noun

• From the Bay of Bengal to the east, the winds start carrying more rain across the subcontinent.
  — Jeremy White, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2022
• The British were far from the first of the rulers of the Indian subcontinent to transform the hydraulic landscape.
  — The Economist, 27 June 2019
• Or at least to be scrapped as a catch-all term for food from the Indian subcontinent.
  — NBC News, 4 Aug. 2021
• Biryani, with roots in the Mughal Empire of India, is a genre of rice dish made in countless ways across the subcontinent.
  — Nathaniel Adams, Chron, 19 Sep. 2022
• At least three species went extinct in the African subcontinent.
  — Francis Thackeray, Quartz Africa, 8 Oct. 2019
• The city in Rajasthan is often dubbed as the most romantic in the subcontinent.
  — Praachi Raniwala, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Feb. 2023
• Over the past month, heat waves have baked the Indian subcontinent.
  — Washington Post, 8 May 2022
• The gown’s wild print and bright yellow color might well have been chosen to capture the vibrancy of the subcontinent and the hue of its flag.
  — Thomas Adamson, The Seattle Times, 15 Jan. 2018
• But the Aryans were not the first group to inhabit the Indian subcontinent.
  — Phillip M. Carter, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
• And in that arena, travelers to the subcontinent are spoiled for choice.
  — Sarah Bruning, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2020
• Fifty years ago, the Cold War fenced off entire subcontinents.
  — Paul Salopek, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019
• The airline operates a route to Mumbai, in the center of the subcontinent.
  — Ariel Kahana, Jewish Journal, 14 Mar. 2018
• Asians from the Indian subcontinent are a case in point.
  — Christine Gorman, Scientific American, 10 May 2016
• In addition, there were differences in the rules of chess played on the subcontinent.
  — Dylan Loeb McClain, New York Times, 27 May 2023
• This year, the sport has faced the hottest spring on the Indian subcontinent in more than a century of record keeping and the hottest day ever in Britain.
  — New York Times, 4 Aug. 2022
• The most recent additions to the city, around the turn of the 21st century, have been from the Indian subcontinent.
  — David Sharos, Aurora Beacon-News, 2 May 2018
• The rice dish is a favorite all over the Indian subcontinent.
  — Kunwar Khuldune Shahid, NPR, 8 June 2024
• Over the millennia, the Dravidians migrated to the southern part of the subcontinent, while the Aryans fanned out across the north.
  — Phillip M. Carter, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
• Gurmukh Singh was born in Punjab before it was split in the partition of the subcontinent in 1947.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2019
• Tamil Nadu and Puducherry face the Bay of Bengal, sharing a 500-mile-long coastline that ends at the southernmost tip of the subcontinent.
  — David Jefferys, CNT, 12 Apr. 2017
• Caste extends far beyond the borders of the South Asian subcontinent.
  — Anjali Enjeti, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Dec. 2022
• The Indian subcontinent had been the home of muslin, a cotton fabric of plain weave, for centuries.
  — Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2022
• To better understand, consider the state of the subcontinent in the late 1980s.
  — Fiza Pirani, Teen Vogue, 13 Sep. 2019
• The company then built on its victory and drove the French and Dutch out of the Indian subcontinent.
  — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 6 Sep. 2019
• So as not to alienate a Quad member and key partner in the Indian Ocean and Asian subcontinent.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Sep. 2021
• Pakistan, which was created at the same stroke of midnight, declared itself to be a home for the Muslims of the subcontinent.
  — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2019
• Pick a direction and there’s something to entice you on the list, which divides the riches of the subcontinent into four parts.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2022
• The banyan tree is not native to Hawaii, hailing from the Indian subcontinent.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• Although originally native to the Indian subcontinent and sub-Saharan Africa, escaped parakeets have been sighted in the wild in England as far back as 1855.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 11 Aug. 2024
• At the time, in the early centuries A.D., the Indian subcontinent was dominated by three powerful dynasties.
  — Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024