NATION in a Sentence
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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.
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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Meanings and Examples of NATION
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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.
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.
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.
4 And such a society, such a nation, is determined by the Gopher Prairies.
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.
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.
7 The Socialists were organized in every civilized nation; it was an international political party, said Ostrinski, the greatest the world had ever known.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
15 Delaware," he said, "though one of a nation of women, you have proved yourself a man.
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.