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
• 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
• 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
• For more than a quarter-mile, both sides of the multilane street were AfD territory.
  — Ali Breland, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Gaza's Health Ministry said Saturday that more than 9,400 Palestinians have been killed in the territory in nearly a month of war and that the number is likely to rise.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2023
• Ducks convert a pair of fourth downs to move into Hawaii territory, with Noah Whittington trotting 41 yards down the left sideline.
  — oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2023
• Since Israel’s ground troops invaded Gaza 19 days ago, the fate of its war has become largely entwined with the fate of the territory’s largest hospital.
  — Iyad Abuheweila, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• This was imperialist escapism, and the more territory Britain lost the more Fleming’s sales grew.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• The new sanctions came on the eve of the first anniversary of Russia laying claim to the territory and will freeze assets and ban travel for officials in those regions and those behind the vote.
  — Yuras Karmanau The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2023
• At least 23 Israelis have been killed in the occupied territories during the same period.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, Time, 19 July 2023
• Females tend to stay closer to their original territory, and a female jaguar has not been seen in America since 1949.
  — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 5 Jan. 2024
• Why do so many Americans decide to put their lives at risk by joining the military when there hasn’t been a war fought on U.S. territory in over a century?
  — TIME, 13 Feb. 2024
• Overall, though, Israel's siege of the Gaza Strip has entrapped the territory's population, unlike other wars where refugees can find a country to flee to.
  — Aya Batrawy, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
• Reddit and its eclectic bazaar of online communities is ready to plumb high-stakes territory — the stock market.
  — Michael Liedtke, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2024
• Most of Gaza's 2.3 million people are crowded into the southern portion of the territory, with more than 1 million living in U.N. schools-turned-shelters.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 25 Nov. 2023
• Before any of that could take place, however, a tribe would have to take the land in question into trust as sovereign Indian territory.
  — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2023
• The sacrifice fly occurred after first baseman Torkelson dropped a pop-up in foul territory.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 14 May 2023
• The modern city of Jericho is a major draw for tourism to the Palestinian territories, both because of its historical sites and proximity to the Dead Sea.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
• Two of Hamas’s key demands include allowing residents to return to northern Gaza, which Israel has cut off from the rest of the territory, and linking any pause in fighting to a lasting cease-fire and end to the war.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024