How to Use territorial in a Sentence

territorial

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• The cruise line will own 13 acres of the property while 4 acres go to Crown Land, which is territorial area owned by the state.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2023
• With shorter teeth and claws, cheetahs aren't the strongest in a scrap and are likely to lose in a fight against a territorial lion or leopard.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2023
• China has used the nine-dash line to mark its controversial territorial claims in the South China Sea.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 24 July 2023
• The site was built along a route that once linked important river basins, and researchers think the slabs may have also been used as territorial markers.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
• The two countries are also at odds over territorial claims in the South China Sea, including drilling rights.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 29 June 2023
• The chimps climb hills not to give them an edge in territorial battles but instead to seek out the doings of other groups to avoid coming into conflict with them at all.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2023
• The line is a demarcation China has used to assert territorial claims in the South China Sea.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2023
• In recent years, none of the countries pushed their territorial claims in the South China Sea—that is, until China decided to.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2023
• Oklahoma was not even yet a state, and Guthrie was the territorial capital.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
• Some odd-nosed monkeys still form harems, but aren’t territorial.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 1 June 2023
• All disputes, including those of a territorial nature in the middle of the 20th century, were all resolved a long time ago.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 17 Dec. 2023
• The 1936 building, which some community members call ‘the territorial school,’ sits adjacent to the City Hall on Main Street.
  — Christina McDermott, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2023
• As northern China suffered scorching heat, the country’s southwest was hit by territorial rains in the past week.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 3 July 2023
• Malaysia won a legal battle in France that will likely cancel an award of about $15 billion over territorial claims related to the present day Borneo state of Sabah.
  — Jenny Che, Bloomberg.com, 6 June 2023
• That hasn’t worked because mountain lions are very territorial and tend to travel alone.
  — Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2023
• Allied forces held off Japanese troops for three months, which stymied Japan’s hopes of growing its territorial gains in the Pacific theater.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 29 Dec. 2022
• China’s actions across Asia has shown the country has a long memory for past slights and long-standing territorial losses.
  — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• Since its 2022 invasion, Russia has been bogged down in Ukraine's east despite some territorial gains.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 17 Jan. 2023
• The right-wing leader has shown more interest in boosting trade with the British than lambasting their territorial claims, and once even praised the leader who deployed troops to eject Argentine forces.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 5 Apr. 2024
• Well, the leaders here all stood up very clearly, including in the statement, for Ukraine's sovereignty, for its territorial integrity.
  — ABC News, 10 Sep. 2023
• The British government is in talks to send main battle tanks to Ukraine to help its forces roll back Russia’s territorial gains, as other allies consider sending Kyiv their own tanks.
  — Max Colchester and Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2023
• Wolves are very territorial, and fighting between packs can be deadly.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2023
• That works out to about 3,000 Russian casualties for every square mile of territorial gains.
  — Marc Santora Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
• But Miss Manners assures you that any shoo-ing or exclusionary tactics are territorial moves and not at all polite.
  — Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2023
• The mercenary group has taken on a growing role in the Ukraine conflict in recent months as Russian forces falter and has been highly visible on the front lines, where Prigozhin has claimed credit for territorial gains.
  — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 5 May 2023
• Last season, there was all this territorial beefing between Ashley and Gabriela.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2023
• In Putin’s version, the Russian Idea amounts to little more than territorial expansion and the repression of domestic dissent in defense of a sacralized state.
  — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
• These birds are very territorial and often will attempt to dominate feeders, chasing away the other birds.
  — Taylor Piephoff, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• Sometimes divers can get territorial, Fleming said, such as if a team from one region searches water in another.
  — Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2024
• The Philippines intentionally grounded an old warship at the shoal in 1999, as a means of bolstering its territorial claims and has kept a small contingent of military there ever since.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 25 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024