17 examples of mainlander in sentences

Eventually, there were on Taiwan about two million of these "mainlanders," as they have sometimes been called.

Secondly, the actual government of Taiwan, which he considered one of China's provinces, was organized as the "Provincial Government of Taiwan," whose leading positions were at first in the hands of KMT mainlanders.

Thirdly, the military forces were organized under the leadership and command of mainlanders.

For the generation in school today, the difference between mainlander and Taiwanese has lost its importance.

With these mainlanders, he regarded Beaver Island as a nest of pirates and murderers.

Was it possible that the discovery of the approach of the mainlanders had served to save Marion?

They had served their purpose, had forced the mainlanders to seek a landing farther down the coast.

Like a huge covey of quail they had dropped to the ground, their rifles lost in that ghostly gloom through which the voices of the mainlanders came in fierce cries of triumph.

Would the mainlanders rush into the trap?

Another followed, and then another; he heard the sound of oars, the grinding of keels upon the sand, and where the Mormons had been a few moments before the beach was now alive with mainlanders.

The mainlanders had started toward the hill!

Before the furious fire the van of the mainlanders crumpled into ruin.

Far to the left he saw a group of the mainlanders running along the beach toward the conflict.

Dawn had dispelled the mist-gloom and as the mainlanders drew nearer he discerned in their lead a figure that brought a cry of joy from his lips.

Half of the mainlanders were fighting in the water.

The mainlanders had turned and were fighting their way back, gaining foot by foot what they had lost.

The din about him became fainter and fainter as though he was being carried rapidly away from it; shouting voices came to him in whispers, and deadened sounds, like the quick tapping of a finger on his forehead, were all that he heard of the steady rifle fire that pursued the defeated mainlanders in their flight.

17 examples of  mainlander  in sentences