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Ghent

[ US /ˈɡɛnt/ ]
NOUN
  1. port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center; famous for cloth industry

How To Use Ghent In A Sentence

  • The presentation of the Prize for Physiology or Medicine to Professor C. Heymans took place in Ghent on the Physiology or Medicine 1938 - Presentation Speech
  • They depart from Ghent — Our Hero engages in a Political Dispute with his Mistress, whom he offends, and pacifies with Submission — He practises an Expedient to detain the Carriage at Alost, and confirms the Priest in his Interest. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
  • A Seal of Prince JOHN OF GHENT, which has two falcons and padlocks, is one of the most beautiful and suggestive works of its class: in this Seal the two birds are addorsed, and consequently they also have their backs turned towards the central achievement. The Handbook to English Heraldry
  • His work, handproduced in his workshop in Ghent Belgium, reflects his quest for perfection in form, detail and fabrication.
  • During the negotiations for the Treaty of Ghent, 1814, the British negotiators again endeavoured to have the 49th parallel to the Rockies accepted as the boundary, but as the proposal was coupled with a stipulation for free access to, and navigation of the Mississippi, the United States negotiators refused to incorporate these articles in the Treaty and the matter therefore was postponed. The Oregon Boundary Question
  • He continues however to sit croaking at Ghent, chagrinned, discontented, and dispirited. Robert Morris
  • Every weekend the couple and their friends -- who call themselves the Gentsche Ghesellen, or Ghent companions -- sleep in windowless tent encampments where they build benches from branches, bake bread, sing religious tributes to the Virgin Mary and drink hippocras, a 14th-century wine drink spiced with ginger, cloves and pepper. Archive 2007-04-01
  • The 52-bell carillon in Ghent, Belgium, is 700 years old and was the largest in the world until it was surpassed in 1925 by the 53-bell carillon at the Park Avenue Baptist Church in New York City.
  • His recently published book In the “I” of the Storm: the Simple Secrets of Writing & Speaking (Almost) like a Professional (84 pages) is available from Story Publishers in Ghent, Belgium (storypublishers. be) and Amazon (amazon. com). Notes on Writing From Writers of Note « Articles « Literacy News
  • She uncovered her typewriter, flipped open her notebook and was soon immersed in a draft of the lengthy Ghent report.
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