How to Use exclave in a Sentence

exclave

noun

• So what's the world's largest true exclave, a landlocked one?
  — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 May 2018
• Poland has also shut down its airspace near Kaliningrad, the Russian exclave on its northern border.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2017
• The incident occurred near the border with the Azerbaijan exclave of Nakhchivan.
  — Fox News, 10 Nov. 2020
• Its Kaliningrad exclave is home to the Kremlin’s Baltic fleet and a wealth of other military assets.
  — MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Nov. 2025
• Azerbaijan has said one of the drones hit the terminal building of an airport, while the other fell close to a school in a nearby village in the Nakhchivan exclave.
  — Jasmine Green, NBC news, 5 Mar. 2026
• Cabinda, the exclave where much of Angola’s oil is produced, is separated from the mainland by a strip of Congo.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
• Russia has hinted at the prospect of more troops on the border, or bringing nuclear weapons into its Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad in response.
  — Leo Laikola, Fortune, 15 May 2022
• The exclave operates as a special economic zone with low taxes, although Western sanctions have hurt its economy.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 21 June 2022
• Russian trains still shuttle back and forth via Lithuania between Moscow and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
  — CNN, 28 Mar. 2022
• Russia has also bolstered its military might in the region, particularly in the exclave of Kaliningrad.
  — James Marson, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2020
• Azerbaijan has long demanded the creation of a special route through this territory to connect Azerbaijan with its exclave.
  — Olesya Vartanyan, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2023
• The pact on a corridor connecting Azerbaijan and its exclave of Nakhichevan is also vulnerable.
  — Thomas De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 22 Sep. 2025
• The village is actually in a small exclave of the UAE that's entirely surrounded by the country Oman.
  — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2017
• The 40-mile-wide corridor is hemmed in by the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad on one side and Belarus, a Russian ally, on the other.
  — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 24 June 2018
• The vast majority of the countries perched around the sea belong to the alliance—with Russia's exclave of Kaliningrad sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
• Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Iranian drones attacked its exclave of Nakhchivan and damaged an airport building.
  — Arkansas Online, 6 Mar. 2026
• Poland and Lithuania border the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, the most militarized territory in all of Europe.
  — John R. Deni and Michael O’Hanlon, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2022
• Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic is an exclave of Azerbaijan, separated from the rest of the country by a distance of about 20 miles at the closest points.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2025
• Poland shares borders with not only Ukraine and Russian ally Belarus but also neighbors Russia's exclave Kaliningrad region in the Baltics.
  — Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
• Azerbaijan said one of the drones struck the terminal building of the airport while the other fell near a school in a nearby village in the Nakhchivan exclave, which borders Turkey, Armenia and Iran.
  — Jasmine Green, NBC news, 5 Mar. 2026
• But if in the future the route becomes viable, the magical journey to Turkey via the ancient city of Nakhchivan (in a disconnected exclave of Azerbaijan) should once again be a major trade and tourism corridor.
  — Mark Elliott, CNN, 16 Dec. 2022
• That route will connect Azerbaijan and its autonomous Nakhchivan exclave, which are separated by a 20-mile-wide patch of Armenian territory.
  — Arkansas Online, 9 Aug. 2025
• It is expected to connect Azerbaijan and its autonomous Nakhchivan exclave, which are separated by a 20-mile-wide patch of Armenian territory.
  — Michelle L. Price, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2026
• Around 7,000 troops are taking part in the exercises, which are being held at locations in Belarus, as well as in Russia's Kaliningrad Baltic exclave and in the Baltic and Barents seas.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2025
• Putin also was asked in Kazakhstan about comments that NATO is capable of destroying Russian military assets in Moscow's Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad.
  — Arkansas Online, 30 May 2026
• In 2023, however, with Armenia unable to defend the exclave and Russia distracted by its war in Ukraine, Azerbaijani forces took the opportunity to seize Nagorno-Karabakh.
  — Thomas De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 22 Sep. 2025
• The war game exercise focused on the Swedish island of Gotland because it is strategically located in the Baltic Sea between the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad – where Moscow has stationed missiles – and Sweden.
  — ABC News, 12 May 2026
• The Lithuanian armed forces believe the Russian planes might have been conducting refueling exercises in the neighboring Russian exclave of Kaliningrad that neighbors the Baltics and is a potential flashpoint in any hostilities between the alliance and Moscow.
  — Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
• Rise to prominence O’Hare lies several miles northwest of Chicago’s urban core, a location that could have created complications for municipal control, as Illinois law does not favor exclaves (areas geographically detached from the rest of a municipality).
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 June 2026
• Lithuania, which borders the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, has been one of Ukraine's staunchest allies during Russian President Vladimir Putin's more than four-year conflict with Kyiv, providing extensive military equipment and financial support.
  — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 2 July 2026