NATIONAL in a Sentence

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1. The battle has become part of national myth.
2. The war stimulated an intense national chauvinism.
3. She was too young to vote in the national election.
4. The national assembly has voted to adopt the budget.
5. Drug traffickers operate across national boundaries.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of NATIONAL
national
 n.  a person who owes allegiance to that nation
 a.  concerned with or applicable to or belonging to an entire nation or country
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The armies of the French have thus become mixed, partly mercenary and partly national, both of which arms together are much better than mercenaries alone or auxiliaries alone, but much inferior to one's own forces.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII — CONCERNING AUXILIARIES, MIXED SOLDIERY, AN...
2  And daily, too, it seemed more plain that this was no ordinary matter of temporary relief, but a national crisis; for here loomed a labor problem of vast dimensions.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
3  Then the national election took place; and the administration, with a vote of renewed confidence from the country, addressed itself to the matter more seriously.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
4  Its failures were the result of bad local agents, the inherent difficulties of the work, and national neglect.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
5  And some felt gratitude toward the race thus sacrificed in its swaddling clothes on the altar of national integrity; and some felt and feel only indifference and contempt.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
6  Thus, by national opinion, the Negroes began to recognize Mr. Washington's leadership; and the voice of criticism was hushed.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
7  It is wrong to encourage a man or a people in evil-doing; it is wrong to aid and abet a national crime simply because it is unpopular not to do so.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
8  Washington has accomplished for the education, good citizenship, and popular enlightenment in his chosen field of labour in the South entitles him to rank with our national benefactors.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVII.
9  Out of this national meeting grew state and local business leagues.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVII.
10  Such action always occurs in wars that take on a national character.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER II
11  The source of that extraordinary power of penetrating the meaning of the events then occuring lay in the national feeling which he possessed in full purity and strength.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER V
12  Alexander I was as necessary for the movement of the peoples from east to west and for the refixing of national frontiers as Kutuzov had been for the salvation and glory of Russia.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XI
13  Nothing remained for the representative of the national war but to die, and Kutuzov died.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XI
14  During the national war he was inactive because he was not needed.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER IV
15  The biographies and special national histories are like paper money.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER III
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Drug traffickers operate across national boundaries.
2  The contract will affect our national prestige in the world.
3  The national football team will arrive in Tokyo tomorrow afternoon.
4  They collect blood samples for analysis at a national laboratory.
5  A panel of young judges, to be chosen through a national competition, will announce its own winners.
6  The battle has become part of national myth.
7  The children were wearing traditional national costume/dress.
8  A complete absence of national border controls is as utopian today as the vision of world government.
9  She was too young to vote in the national election.
10  The war stimulated an intense national chauvinism.
11  I should think the Welsh are the only people in the world whose only national festival is devoted to music and poetry.
12  The national debt stands at fifty-five billion dollars.
13  The national assembly has voted to adopt the budget.
14  For weeks the media has been building up the national basketball team.
15  He called on his people to carry forward their struggle for national liberty.