territory

Definition:
1. A region marked off for administrative or other purposes.
2. An area of knowledge or interest.
3. The geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state.

Use 'territory' in a sentence:

• 1. Greece has always stressed that it had no designs on the territory.
• 2. Legal problems are Andy's territory.
• 3. Peter the Great expands territory beyond the Euro mountains along the Caspian Sea at the expense of the Turks.
• 4. Doing human rights work is risky business. That comes with the territory.
• 5. She has to work late most days, but in her kind of job that goes with the territory.
• 6. This is my territory. I want you out of here.
• 7. That is not territory that you can build colonies; you've got powerful empires to deal with.
• 8. the tradeoff of territory or land for peace.
• 9. We are prepared to fight for every inch of territory.
• 10. They were now deep inside rebel territory.
• 11. They just want to return to their families in the occupied territories.
• 12. The tiny island nation has set aside 500,000 square kilometres—80 percent—of its maritime territory, for full protection.
• 13. This is a new territory for the European project.
• 14. That's because sharks are territorial and tend to guard their territory.
• 15. He would like an assurance that other forces will not move into the territory that his forces vacate.
• 16. That's OK between sisters but becomes dangerous territory when you're talking to the children of friends or acquaintances.
• 17. The conflict made it nearly impossible to track the activities of enemy tribes outside Roman territory.
• 18. He toured some of the disputed territories now under UN control.
• 19. The snail continues its march to new territory, says Serrat.
• 20. The territory of Nunavut consists of three regions.
• 21. On May 1st the army took over another swathe of territory.
• 22. Roman priorities lay in the organization, exploitation, and defense of their territory.
• 23. In 1990, 200,000 Soviet Jews resettled on Israeli territory.
• 24. For those of us coaching "self-organizing" teams: how do we navigate in this territory?
• 25. The new territory would extend over one-fifth of Canada's land mass.
• 26. I was moving into uncharted territory with this relationship.
• 27. Carter's fourth album definitely moves into uncharted territory.
• 28. Guam and American Samoa are US territories.
• 29. Rival claims to Macedonian territory caused conflict in the Balkans.
• 30. France has kept the most intimate links with its former African territories.
• 31. So they do that to keep other frogs from invading their territory?
• 32. Our representatives cover a very large territory.
• 33. The World Cup is virgin territory for Ecuador.
• 34. Reading from a tedious technical brief for hours on end, he would stray into difficult territory.
• 35. The territory of a cat only remains fixed for as long as the cat dominates the area.
• 36. When you have two adversaries negotiating, you need to be on neutral territory.
• 37. I don't want another guy moving in on my territory, you know?
• 38. The whole territory is now controlled by the army.
• 39. Israel captured the territory in the 1967 War.
• 40. Mating blackbirds will defend their territory against intruders.
• 41. The conversation was in danger of wandering into forbidden territory.
• 42. If you go into a shark's territory and threaten it, it might try to bite you.
• 43. The government denies that any of its territory is under rebel control.
• 44. The agreement gives the territory limited self-rule.
• 45. Let's meet on neutral territory.
• 46. The war was carried into enemy territory.
• 47. This type of work is uncharted territory for us.
• 48. Chimps will cooperate in certain ways, like gathering in war parties to protect their territory.
• 49. If we are serious about coexisting with other species, we have to concede them territory.
• 50. You may have free passage across our territory whenever you require it.
• 51. We were promised safe passage through the occupied territory.
• 52. We were promised (a) safe passage through the occupied territory.
• 53. Although the Yakutians are a minority, they have firm control of the territory.