Example Sentences

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The most powerful nation on earth, awakening to the existence of soccer and the fact that its national team was still alive in the “Group of Death”, went duly and very Americanly crazy.

From The Guardian • Jun. 17, 2014

There to newsmen he said last week: "Call me 'A. P.,' simply and Americanly."

From Time Magazine Archive

They mostly wore the skirts and hats of Paris, and if the scene of the fountain was Arabically oriental the promenade was almost Americanly occidental.

From Familiar Spanish Travels by Howells, William Dean

But I am appalled to notice that the wide extension of the surface has damaged her manners, and made her rather Americanly uncourteous on the lower levels.

From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900) by Paine, Albert Bigelow

"Americanly chivalrous to the fingertips, and with just enough of the primitive animal in him to ward off monotony."

From Maurice Guest by Richardson, Henry Handel