How to Use territory in a Sentence

territory

noun

• Male cats spray to mark territory.
• The goal of the expedition is to map unexplored territory.
• The birds are busy establishing territories and building nests.
• Guam is a U.S. territory.
• Those mountains are in Mexican territory.
• That threat was quelled with a popout in foul territory.
  — Brian Haenchen, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Apr. 2023
• The show will be televised live on ABC and in more than 200 territories worldwide.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 6 Mar. 2024
• In the remaining eighty-two per cent of the territory, Israel is in charge.
  — Shane Bauer, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
• Nor does the foam have the same acoustic properties for drumming—a way for the birds to mark territory.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 Apr. 2023
• At least 20% of the Amazon territory has been burned away, chopped down or submerged by dams.
  — Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• But that’s just two states, which leaves a lot of open territory ripe for exploration.
  — Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2023
• Just stick to one slice for breakfast or else this pick will inch out of low-calorie territory.
  — Good Housekeeping, 31 Jan. 2023
• Instead of having the ball in Jacksonville territory late in the first half, the Dolphins allowed the Jaguars to move into field-goal range.
  — Adam H. Beasley, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• The yacht’s final voyage abroad was to Hong Kong, when the territory was handed back to China in 1997.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
• The deaths brought the number of Palestinians killed in the territory since the start of the year to more than 40 — the deadliest start to a year for Palestinians in the West Bank in the past decade and a half.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2023
• For more than a quarter-mile, both sides of the multilane street were AfD territory.
  — Ali Breland, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2023
• That amount would increase to 5% if that territory becomes part of the city limits.
  — Margaret Kates | [e-mail], al, 4 Apr. 2023
• This connects to one of the thorniest questions: that of territory.
  — Timothy Garton Ash, The New York Review of Books, 26 Jan. 2023
• And Thursday's raid was the deadliest single raid in the territory in over two decades.
  — Josef Federman and Isabel Debre, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2023
• The index has been in negative territory for 12 months in a row.
  — Robert Barone, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
• After Israel closed its lone border crossing with Gaza, the passage at Rafah stood as the last route out of the territory.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2023
• Maybe last year, each team was trying to mark their territory and not every check got finished.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 6 May 2024
• The Colts have just 1 offensive touchdown despite spending most of the game in Vikings territory.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Dec. 2022
• If all goes well, is there the ability to expand territory areas or take on more than one franchise?
  — Fiona Simpson, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
• One major sticking point is whether a deal would leave Hamas, which governed Gaza before the war, with the power to exert some control over the territory.
  — Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 10 June 2024
• The 140-square-mile territory is one of most densely populated places on Earth.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 24 Oct. 2023
• The strong March helped the first quarter into positive territory too.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 2 Apr. 2024
• But Moscow still occupies around a sixth of Ukraine and has declared this territory part of Russia.
  — Andreas Rinke and Tom Balmforth, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Jan. 2023
• The boat was taken to the Ramsey Border Patrol Station on the island territory.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 17 Nov. 2022
• The game’s soundtrack is heavy on somber piano melodies, but ratchets up into stranger, more haunting places as the story goes deeper into dreamlike territory.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024