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• Eton College has been called "the chief nurse of England's statesmen".From the entry nurse
• The statesman Winston Churchill has a namesake, the American novelist Winston Churchill.From the entry namesake
• He approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.From the entry approach
• The elder of the two was also an elder statesman.From the entry elder
• Paranhos, father of the Barão do Rio Branco, was a foremost statesman of the monarchy and celebrated for his Platine diplomacy.From the entry Platine
• A RESPECTABLE statesman once said if a country surrenders its sovereignty, it may become a half-past-six country.2018 July 21, Datuk Abu Bakar Abdul Hamid, “Staying clear of the half-past-six conundrum”, in The New Straits Times. From the entry half-past-six
• The reason was that China's stability was at stake, according to Singapore's statesman Lee Kuan Yew.2014 October 10, Diane M. Francis, “Why Does China Get To Renege on Its Promise of Democracy in Hong Kong?”, in HuffPost. From the entry so be it
• Anand disembarks like a statesman from the Volkswagen to be garlanded immediately by five different women.2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, page 206. From the entry garland
• Multitrillionaire, captain of industry, statesman, public servant, philanthropist, Weatherwax was a legend in his own time.1998 December, Ben Bova, Sam Gunn Forever, Avon Eos, →ISBN, pages 230–231. From the entry multitrillionaire
• We sincerely regret that the statesmen in Britain and France are suffering from virulent germanophobia.1922, The Literary Digest - Volume 72, page 21. From the entry germanophobia
• Artist and activist Ellen Gabriel remembered him as a “great statesman, a fluent Kanien’kéha speaker and Turtle clan relative.”2020 August 15, The Canadian Press, “Kahnawake Grand Chief Joseph Norton remembered as statesman, defender of Mohawk rights”, in The Globe…. From the entry Kanien'kéha
• Benjamin Franklin was the colonies’ master statesman and cunning linguist who charmed the pantaloons off the court of Versailles.2010 May, Spencer Walker, Cook to Bang: The Lay Cook's Guide to Getting Laid, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 25. From the entry the pantaloons off
• But these, the statesman may be as apt to misdiscern as to overlook, failing in action through inadequacy in contemplation.1968, Arthur Lee Burns, Of Powers and Their Politics, page 281. From the entry misdiscern
• Statesmen sometimes need some whoopingly big lies to justify to themselves and their followers actions which they contemplate.1966, Leonard William Doob, Public opinion and propaganda, page 390. From the entry whoopingly
• Smith at one point was council dean and looked upon himself as a statesman, so much so that he made up words.2014 April 20, Rich James, “Keister eggs from our scrambled politics”, in The Times, Munster, Ind., page A3, column 4. From the entry proposement
• Unthinking Anglo-Saxons regard him as a Gallic marplot, rather than the great twentieth-century statesman he was – certainly the greatest Frenchman since Napoleon.2012, Michael Burleigh, “Keeping the Flame Alive”, in Literary Review, section 402. From the entry marplot
• Wise words from one of advertising's elder statesmen, who has seen the industry evolve from TV, radio, and print to today's splinternet.2012, Rachel Pasqua, Noah Elkin, Mobile Marketing: An Hour a Day. From the entry splinternet
• Don’t let Hankey see you” – had been made similarly public, would he have maintained his own reputation as a towering statesman?2010 June 3, Jojo Moyes, “Why love letters are better left unread”, in The Telegraph. From the entry pussy
• With the average age of the new production team under thirty, he found himself in the unenviable position of BBC Current Affairs elder statesman.2004, Mark Andresen, Field of Vision: The Broadcast Life of Kenneth Allsop, page 458. From the entry elder statesman
• The statesman Draco, faced with public complacency in the face of a crisis in crime, devised a simple method of maintaining order: kill all offenders.1985 December 8, William Safire, “ESSAY; Draco vs. Solon”, in The New York Times. From the entry draco
• They also have the fine collection of Hungariana made by the late Count Apponyi, the one interested in education, not the famous statesman.1929, Library Service News, volumes 1–5, page 27. From the entry Hungariana
• So holding this finest flower of the Ruritanian genius, as their poet laureate said, to their hearts, Ruritania's statesmen went forth to divide and conquer.1922, Walter Lippman, chapter X, in Public Opinion, published 2007, page 79. From the entry Ruritanian
• Leopold himself must have envied such perfect correctitude; but what may be admirable in an elderly statesman is alarming in a maiden of nineteen.1921, Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria. From the entry correctitude
• Monarchs and statesmen always seem engaged in maneuvers on the diplomatic chessboard, in order to isolate one Power and to combine others.1908 July 23, Theodor Barth, “Germany’s Political Position”, in The Independent, volume LXV, number 3112, New York, N.Y.: The Independent…. From the entry detente
• To a practical statesman that will seem perhaps a counsel of perfection; and, certainly, it is a counsel that, at every stage, will encounter acute difficulties of practical operation.1919, Harold Joseph Laski, Authority in the Modern State, page 55. From the entry counsel of perfection
• But when he entered the halls of Congress and tried the same spectacularisms upon some of the thoughtful statesmen of the time he met with ridicule.1917, Glenn Newton Merry, The Fundamentals of Public Speaking. From the entry spectacularism
• During the eventful millenniums of China's chequered history, rulers and statesmen deemed it wise no fewer than seventeen times to change the situation of the nation's capital.1913, Rev. Murdoch Mackenzie, D.D., Twenty-five Years in Honan, Toronto: Hunter-Rose Co., page 1. From the entry Honan
• Thus Ito, according to some interpreters of modern Japan, practically ceased to rank as an "elder statesman" when he consented to lead the political combination known as the Sei-yu-kai.1905 October 5, “A Review of the World”, in Current Literature, volume 39, number 4, page 364. From the entry elder statesman
• "We need two new examples to demonstrate how awesome nuclear war is, so it will sober up politicians, military men and statesmen, not only here but in the Soviet Union."1981 February 15, Art Buchwald, “Firing Away at a Nuclear Solution”, in Los Angeles Times, page 3. From the entry modest proposal
• I waited for him to take it up, to unravel once again his tale of plotting statesmen and deluded public, his great joke, his private toe hold on the world.1959, John Knowles, chapter 11, in A Separate Peace. From the entry toe hold

Meaning of statesman

1. noun A man who is a leader in national or international affairs.
2. noun A male political leader who promotes the public good or who is recognized for probity, leadership, or the qualities necessary to govern a state.
3. noun A man who lives on a landed estate; a small landholder.

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Questions about statesman in a sentence

How do you use statesman in a sentence?

Statesman is used as a noun. For example: “Eton College has been called "the chief nurse of England's statesmen".”

What is a short sentence with statesman?

“He approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.”

What does statesman mean?

Statesman means a man who is a leader in national or international affairs.