Territory in example sentence

China’s claim to the Spratly Islands and a large portion of the South China Sea is based on the so-called nine-dash line, a demarcation extending far south of its territory that has been repeatedly contested since it was first proposed after World War II.

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1874: General George Custer announced the discovery of gold in Lakota territory, specifically the Black Hills.

But also, our hearts are in our throats a huge amount of the time, because we're driving through water, and it's an unknown territory.

Borders between the Bosniak territory and the Bosnian-Serb territory have calmed down.

Here was an army that had just had experience in the First World War, where millions of men fought each other in the trenches, getting nowhere, making no progress, and here someone had come up with a device that allowed them to fly up in the skies high above enemy territory and destroy whatever they wanted with pinpoint accuracy.

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