NATION in a Sentence

Learn NATION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for NATION, such as:
1. The Chinese are an industrious nation.
2. Better one suffer, than a nation grieve.
3. A nation must take certain risks to achieve greatness.
4. The President gave an address to the nation over the radio.
5. Gone are the days when a big nation could lord it over small ones.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of NATION
nation
 n.  the people who live in a nation or country
 n.  United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911)
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "That little wisp looks like it was just the best he could do," she thought, not seeing in his face the cold hard intelligence that was carrying the weight of a new nation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  Representing nothing on God's earth now And naught in the waters below it-- As the pledge of nation that's passed away Keep it, dear friend, and show it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
3  It's a poor person and a poor nation that sits down and cries because life isn't precisely what they expected it to be.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
4  And such a society, such a nation, is determined by the Gopher Prairies.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
5  But though no other nation has ever had any written whaling law, yet the American fishermen have been their own legislators and lawyers in this matter.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish.
6  Cleric had explained to us that 'patria' here meant, not a nation or even a province, but the little rural neighbourhood on the Mincio where the poet was born.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: II
7  The Socialists were organized in every civilized nation; it was an international political party, said Ostrinski, the greatest the world had ever known.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29
8  But the red Hurons are not deaf; and counsel that is fit for the great men of a nation would make the young warriors drunk.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
9  When the young man mentioned the artifice he supposed the Indian to have practised on his own nation, the countenance of the listener was veiled in an expression of cautious gravity.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
10  Listen," repeated the Indian, resuming his earnest attitude; "when his English and French fathers dug up the hatchet, Le Renard struck the war-post of the Mohawks, and went out against his own nation.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
11  He enumerated the warriors of the party; their several merits; their frequent services to the nation; their wounds, and the number of the scalps they had taken.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
12  Some were rushing eagerly to enjoy the aquatic games of the lake, and others were already toiling their way up the neighboring hills, with the restless curiosity of their nation.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
13  There are always some honest men in every nation, though heaven knows, too, that they are scarce among the Maquas, to look down an upstart when he brags ag'in the face of reason.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
14  Look you, Delaware," she said, snapping her fingers in his face; "your nation is a race of women, and the hoe is better fitted to your hands than the gun.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
15  Delaware," he said, "though one of a nation of women, you have proved yourself a man.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  A nation must take certain risks to achieve greatness.
2  The President gave an address to the nation over the radio.
3  A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.
4  The nation was urged to pull together to avoid a slide into complete chaos.
5  She has become the self - appointed guardian of the nation's conscience.
6  The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation ; the two keep in their downwad tendency.
7  The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation ; the two keep in their downward tendency.
8  For years the nation had been under the heel of a dictatorial regime.
9  It looks like high noon for the nation's movie theaters, now we are in the age of the home video.
10  The figures show evidence that murders in the nation's capital are beginning to level off.
11  Better one suffer, than a nation grieve.
12  May the people of the nation live happily and wealthily this upcoming year.
13  Gone are the days when a big nation could lord it over small ones.
14  The Chinese are an industrious nation.
15  The Chinese nation is distinguished for its diligence and courage.