Example Sentences

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I don’t think American people are put off by Britishness — I don’t think the music is too crazy for them to get it.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2025

But, despite all this tutelage in "Britishness", could the child pick up so-called cultural bias from the international family he lives with anyway?

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2025

As Matić puts it, an "obsession with understanding Britishness, or not understanding it".

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2025

Suede’s sense of Britishness, however, was less a matter of manifesto than of instinct, driven by the desire to render small lives and intimate details in sweeping, romantic, even histrionic gestures.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2025

The voice had a slight faked Britishness to it.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green