Brother Jonathan
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Brother Jonathan got caught in a windstorm and struck one of the rocks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2025
By the late 1850s, because he had been claimed by the Know-Nothings for their own, Brother Jonathan was no longer a viable national symbol.
From Slate ● Jul. 4, 2022
But there was another figure resembling Uncle Sam called Brother Jonathan who emerged earlier.
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2021
He replaced Brother Jonathan, a New Englander, as an American icon in the early 19th century after an article circulated in the May 12, 1830, New York Gazette.
From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2015
Brother Jonathan thinks and talks of cotton, and flour, and dollars, and the ups and downs of stocks.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various
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