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US
/dʒɪˈbɹɔɫtɝ/
]
NOUN
- location of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the Mediterranean; one of the Pillars of Hercules
How To Use Gibraltar In A Sentence
- The characteristic solid grey limestone was quarried from the east face of the Rock of Gibraltar as well as being shipped across from a Spanish quarry outside Algeciras.
- Their cover permitted travel throughout the country and, it is thought, even into Gibraltar and the Spanish enclaves.
- The battles between the British kids and their Gibraltarian counterparts of Spanish ethnic origin had nothing to do with political differences over the war, he says.
- Abyla, Mount, or Columna, a mountain in Morocco, near Ceuta, now called Jebel Musa or Ape's Hill, forming the Northwestern extremity of the African coast opposite Gibraltar (See Pillars of The Age of Chivalry
- How little these true barbarians know of the solicitous tendresse to which they are subject, or the colonial telegrams that have passed to and from the Gibraltar cable station, attesting to their contentment, or their decline. The ends of the earth
- We went out by Gibraltar, flew to Cairo, to Abukir, near Alexandria, where we had a major overhaul. The Japanese Ceylon Attack
- the only foothold left for British troops in Europe was Gibraltar
- It sparked a diplomatic incident when the ill-fated ship docked in Gibraltar leading to Spain closing its border with the Rock to ensure the virulent virus did not spread.
- Gibraltar police officers confirmed they were speaking to their Spanish counterparts about one of the incidents. Times, Sunday Times
- Some people continued to leave cash in offshore havens such as Luxembourg and Gibraltar to keep their affairs secret from the taxman.
