How to Use Basque in a Sentence
Basque
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How about all of your scenes with the Swans at La Côte Basque?
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 2024-03-13
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The Basque Country is not an easy place to leave for any footballer brought up in the region.
—The Athletic Uk Staff, The Athletic, 2025-02-13
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Mini Basque Cheese Fun and rich, with a thick, almost sticky texture.
—Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 2023-12-02
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Spain's culinary gem: San Sebastián in the Basque Country.
—Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 2025-06-17
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Don’t leave without ordering the Burnt Basque Cheesecake for dessert.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 2025-07-24
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Add Pumpkin Basque Cheesecake or chocolate tarte for $30 each.
—Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 2022-11-12
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Asturias is one of four regions along Spain's north coast, from Galicia in the west to the Basque Country in the east.
—Paul Richardson, Condé Nast Traveler, 2024-04-09
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The Basque Country club last won the competition in 1984.
—Tales Azzoni, USA TODAY, 2024-01-24
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The Basque was yellow carded for mouthing from the dugout as Barca led 4-1 after mounting a comeback for the ages.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 2025-01-12
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After departing Le Select and Café Basque, though, that’s now his only stateside venture.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 2023-05-10
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The property has also teamed up with the Basque Culinary Center, which trains people and promotes Basque gastronomy.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 2025-05-22
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The city’s famous Basque Block downtown will have daily street parties and feature traditional Basque competitions like wagon lifting and wood chopping.
—Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 2024-10-30
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The Basque Country and the Canary Islands are boosting their regional film businesses, building on some of the world’s most attractive tax advantages.
—Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 2024-05-15
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His last job before moving to the Middle East was as an assistant coach at EuroLeague club Baskonia in Spain’s Basque Country.
—Eduardo Tansley, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2025
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But his dependency on fringe parties to keep his minority coalition afloat, including separatist forces from Catalonia and the Basque Country, and his passing of a slew of liberal-minded laws may cost him his job.
—Ciarán Giles, Anchorage Daily News, 2023-07-23
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But his dependency on fringe parties to keep his minority coalition afloat, including the separatist forces from Catalonia and the Basque Country, and his passing of a slew of liberal-minded laws may cost him his job.
—Ciarán Giles and Joseph Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 2023-07-23
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As recently as the twentieth century, the state forcefully tried to assimilate national minorities in Catalonia, Galicia and the Basque Country.
—Natividad Fernández Sola, Foreign Affairs, 2020-01-06
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Despite a population of just under 2.2 million people, according to the Basque Statistics Office, the region is home to 23 Michelin star restaurants, including four with three stars.
—Jack Bantock, CNN, 2024-03-21
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Elections on July 23 will pit the ruling coalition of center-left and radical left parties, supported by Basque and Catalan nationalists, against a potential alliance between the country’s conservative and far-right parties.
—Ben Wray, WIRED, 2023-07-20
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Marcia Basque, who is 85, grew up in Land Park and now lives in Arizona, remembered taking swimming lessons with her sister at Land Park Plunge from Sherm Chavoor around 1951.
—Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 11 Aug. 2025
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Castilian Spanish is spoken by the majority of Spaniards, but some autonomous regions have their own official language (Catalan in Catalonia, for example, and Basque, or Euskara, in the Basque Country).
—Blane Bachelor, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025
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