How to Use Columbian in a Sentence

Columbian

noun
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  • Keam sent some of her pieces to the World’s Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893.
    — Kathleen Sharp For Propublica, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Keam sent some of her pieces to the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893.
    — Kathleen Sharp, ProPublica, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The museum spans almost one million square feet and is housed in a gorgeous beaux-arts building that was designed for the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893.
    — Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Their protest of the exclusion of blacks from the Columbian Exposition amounted to the argument that to erase the history of black accomplishment was to erase the history of America itself.
    — William B. Allen, National Review, 28 July 2023
  • Before the pandemic, camping accounted for 11% of all vacation-type trips, The Columbian reported.
    — Maddie Capron, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The Columbian Exchange picked up momentum thereafter, as Europe sent people, money, plants and animals, along withdiseases and weapons, to the Americas.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Keam sent some of her pieces to the World’s Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893.
    — Kathleen Sharp For Propublica, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Keam sent some of her pieces to the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893.
    — Kathleen Sharp, ProPublica, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The museum spans almost one million square feet and is housed in a gorgeous beaux-arts building that was designed for the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893.
    — Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Their protest of the exclusion of blacks from the Columbian Exposition amounted to the argument that to erase the history of black accomplishment was to erase the history of America itself.
    — William B. Allen, National Review, 28 July 2023
  • Before the pandemic, camping accounted for 11% of all vacation-type trips, The Columbian reported.
    — Maddie Capron, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The Columbian Exchange picked up momentum thereafter, as Europe sent people, money, plants and animals, along withdiseases and weapons, to the Americas.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023

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