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How to use countryman in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Countryman means somebody from a certain country. Example: “City dwellers have a higher cancer rate than do countrymen. Apparently, they drink more than is good for 'em.”

More sentences with countryman

  • City dwellers have a higher cancer rate than do countrymen. Apparently, they drink more than is good for 'em.From the entry than
  • Some of the VP’s countrymen are less polite about his trip.2025 July 26, Esther Addley, “‘We’re struggling’: unease as crowded Cotswolds braces for JD Vance’s summer holiday”, in Katharine Viner…. From the entry Laurelyn
  • I was alone among my countrymen at the end of the world.2023, Sara Wheeler, Glowing Still: A Woman's Life on the Road. From the entry pitroom
  • Rather than encouraging his countrymen to liberate their slaves, he opposed both private manumission and public emancipation.2012 November 30, Paul Finkelman, “The Real Thomas Jefferson: The Monster of Monticello”, in New York Times, retrieved 03 Aug 2015. From the entry manumission
  • We thank you, countrymen, for your warm welcome to our family."1996 December 10, Brian Williams, “N. KOREANS MAKE DARING ESCAPE SOUTH”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original…. From the entry Tuman
  • Thanks to the effort of his countryman, Galia, it explodes in his face.1954 July, “Solitaire Chess”, in Chess Review. From the entry take a powder
  • An English countryman of the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century would be amazed to see how smocking has changed today.1985, Allyne S. Holland, “Smocking Traditions”, in Treasury of Smocking Designs (Dover Needlework Series), New York, N.Y.: Dover…. From the entry smocking
  • "Oh, Jeff Wain!" returned the countryman slightingly; "yas, I knows 'im, an' don' know no good of 'im.1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter 33, in The House Behind The Cedars. From the entry biggity
  • I talked to Mexican railroad workers who are paid a fraction of what the American owners pay their own countrymen for the same work."2014, Michael Nava, The City of Palaces, Terrace Books, page 191. From the entry peonage
  • And Fresnel's countryman, Laurent Koechlin, of the Midi-Pyrénées observatory, thinks zone plates are the way to find out if there is life on other planets.2012 June 9, “Twinkle, twinkle, little planet”, in The Economist. From the entry zone plate
  • This band of countrymen consists of fiddler Ketch Secor, guitjoist Kevin Hayes, upright bassist Morgan Jahnig, guitarist Willie Watson, and banjoist Critter Fuqua.2008, Daniel Martin, "Old Crow Medicine Show's third release heavy on folk", Pioneer (Oklahoma City Community College), Volume 37, Issue…. From the entry guitjoist
  • Even on the outskirts of Washington some of the countrymen still appraise the character of the coming spring by the weather on "Groundhog Day."1918 May, Edward W. Nelson, “Smaller Mammals of North America”, in National Geographic, volume XXXIII, number 5, page 434. From the entry Groundhog Day
  • Bowers had enjoyed seeing the fruit of his efforts pay off as much as he loved watching his countrymen get swept up in his soccer passion.2014, Sean Reid, Love Thy Soccer: The Fan Rewrites the Book on the American Game. From the entry walk on sunshine
  • Let us suppose that, struck like Herostratos with the idea of perpetuating his name by some strange extravagance, he should decide to distribute his treasure equally amongst his countrymen.1919, Francis Sullivan, “Other Things We Forgot”, in The Will of the People, Los Angeles, Calif.: The Ray Publishing Co., page 56. From the entry Herostratos
  • In recent years, Sri Lankan wildlife expert Shyamala Ratnayeke has surveyed close to three hundred of her countrymen who have encountered and, in some cases, been injured by sloth bears.2007, Bernd Brunner, Bears: A Brief History, page 134. From the entry sloth bear
  • Lawrence's progressive alienation from his countrymen and finally from humanity – as it were, the "Timonizing" process that overcame him – went hand in hand with his estrangement from Russell.1983, Michael L. Ross, "Lawrence's letters", in Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies, volume 3, number 1 (Summer 1983), page 58. From the entry Timonize

Meaning of countryman

  1. noun Somebody from a certain country.
  2. noun Somebody from one's own country; a fellow countryman.
  3. noun A man who is a country dweller, especially a follower of country pursuits.

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Questions about countryman in a sentence

How do you use countryman in a sentence?
Countryman is used as a noun. For example: “City dwellers have a higher cancer rate than do countrymen. Apparently, they drink more than is good for 'em.”
What is a short sentence with countryman?
“Some of the VP’s countrymen are less polite about his trip.”
What does countryman mean?
Countryman means somebody from a certain country.

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